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by scarface_74 519 days ago
The one service that is not dead yet. But is smelling funny is CodePipeline. It is so bad and they’ve already discontinued CodeCommit (the very bad hosted git service), Cloud9 (hosted IDE that is based on VSCode even though they would never admit it externally) and CodeStar.
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donavanm 519 days ago
A couple comments:

AFAIK cloud9 was never vscode based, it was a dutch startup acquisition when hosted RDEs were looking popular https://siliconcanals.com/amazon-acquires-cloud9/. I believe theyre busy working on similar-but-not-obviously related remote environments like AWS Workspaces.

Re: existing Code-asterisk _services_ see CodeCatalyst at a recent (in progress) attempt to move to a more unified user-centric _product_.

And for downthread Cognito, Id be surprised if it ever goes away. i think theres some unification/deconfliction of capabilities that needs to happen with Federate. But Id expect one or both of those to stick around as a proxy pool of user identities for apps. The more interesting, and huge change to how AWS fundamentally works, is Identity Center(IdC). Tying back to cognito and CodeCatalyst IdC should _finally_ bring user identities, and your corp IdP, in to AWS and actually be useful across existing services. This _could_ catch AWS up to goog cloud and OCI and (I assume) azure on identity management.

Edit: ex AWS, but all if the above based on publicly available information.

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koromak 519 days ago
Cognito feels like its bones are grinding together
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scarface_74 519 days ago
They can’t really get rid of Cognito. It’s the authentication/authorization platform for external users. There is no migration path that will seamlessly transfer user names and passwords to other mainstream services like CodeCommit.
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calmbonsai 519 days ago
I can see reduced federation options and increased costs, but Cognito is OAuth so it's never going to die. You might as well try to get rid of IAM.
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UltraSane 519 days ago
especially since they won't support exporting password hashes.
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bastawhiz 519 days ago
If you run internal apps on ECS, cognito effectively gives you beyondcorp for free. Being able to put cognito as a rule in your load balancer is choice. I wouldn't use it for anything else, though.
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