Praise Amazon for raising this service from the dead

"The first was Amazon Sumerian (tagline: "You're making that service up, right?"), which was followed over the years by a host of others, ranging from Honeycode (tagline: "What if we made a no-code platform that nobody asked for?") to QLDB ("It's awesome but nobody can seem to explain quite why") to the Snowball Edge ("Please never Google either of those words")."

"And yet, this week, we're seeing what to my knowledge is the first time a hyperscaler has deprecated a product, then resurrected it. The service that AWS revived is Amazon CodeCommit ("What if GitHub had a UI that was forty times worse?"). This is a big deal, if for no other reason than it demonstrates that somewhere within the belly of the Amazonian beast, someone is still listening to customers and advocating for them."

"AWS announced CodeCommit at re:Invent way back in 2014. It was one of the original AWS services that started with the word "Code." It went GA in July of the following year. Customer response was largely tepid. If you're used to GitHub, or GitLab, or even using git via CLI, the command-line experience was less than terrific, and hopes that this would improve eventually died."

Google has a history of retiring beloved products, while AWS has frequently launched and later shuttered services that lacked demand or clear purpose. Examples include Amazon Sumerian, Honeycode, QLDB, and Snowball Edge. AWS introduced CodeCommit at re:Invent 2014 and launched it generally available in July 2015. Customer response was tepid due to a poor command-line and UI experience. In 2024 AWS announced CodeCommit deprecation for new customers, but in the week before re:Invent 2025 AWS reversed that decision and revived the service. The reversal indicates internal advocacy for customers and a willingness to reconsider prior decisions.

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