Copy Comment Amazon Web Services has announced the retirement of its third cloud service: the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, aka EC2 Classic. A July 28 post by AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr explains that the service was superseded in 2009 by Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, then again by Virtual Private Clouds for Everyone in 2013. Barr's post explains that customers who signed up with AWS since December 4, 2013, couldn't use EC2 Classic unless they specifically requested it. The bulk of AWS customers will not, therefore, be inconvenienced by the service's retirement. Those that do use the service need to be on their toes, because AWS has set a deadline of August 15, 2022 – after which it expects "no remaining EC2 Classic resources present in any AWS account," and all migrations to something else will be complete.