AWS key dates
Every dated AWS change that forces action, in one place: end-of-life and end-of-support deadlines, plus announced pricing changes, configuration-default changes, retirements and policy mandates that impact your stack and costs. What's changing, when, and how long you have. For day-to-day announcements, see the AWS release feed.
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Dated changes (2)
Announced changes with an explicit effective date: pricing, defaults, retirements and policy mandates that existing workloads must plan around. Every date shown has been checked against the original announcement, which each row links to.
- 30 Sept 2026 48 days
New pay-as-you-go pricing for Session Manager and Run Command on non-EC2 nodes takes effect.
- 31 Jan 2027 171 daysEOL EC2 How a Customer Upgraded over 2,000 Microsoft Windows Server 2016 to 2025 on Amazon EC2 source ↗
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 reaches end of support by January 31, 2027, impacting EC2 workloads. Plan upgrades.