AWS retires App Runner
AWS moved App Runner into maintenance mode and will stop accepting new customers after April 30, 2026, marking a quiet product pullback. (x.com) The company also signalled other end-of-life changes across services, including a regional notice that RDS Custom for Oracle will end in about a year. (x.com)
Amazon Web Services is quietly pulling back from App Runner: the service stops accepting new customers on April 30, 2026, and new features are over. (docs.aws.amazon.com) Amazon Web Services said existing App Runner customers can keep using the service normally after that date, including creating new services and other resources. The company said it will keep investing in security and availability, but “do[es] not plan to introduce new features.” (docs.aws.amazon.com) App Runner launched in general availability on May 18, 2021, as a managed way to take source code or a container image and turn it into a web application without managing servers or a container orchestrator. Amazon Web Services pitched it as a faster path for teams that did not want to configure load balancers, deployment pipelines, or Transport Layer Security certificates themselves. (aws.amazon.com) Amazon Web Services is steering users toward Amazon Elastic Container Service Express Mode, a newer option that became available in November 2025. The company says Express Mode takes a container image, deploys it on Amazon Elastic Container Service, and automates load balancing, scaling, and a default web address. (aws.amazon.com) That recommendation shows where Amazon Web Services wants simple container deployments to live now: inside Amazon Elastic Container Service, not as a separate product. Amazon Web Services says Express Mode keeps the simplified setup while preserving access to the broader Amazon Elastic Container Service feature set when teams need more control. (docs.aws.amazon.com) The App Runner notice is not the only retirement signal. Amazon Web Services says support for Amazon Relational Database Service Custom for Oracle ends on March 31, 2027, and after that date customers will no longer be able to access database instances, snapshots, custom engine versions, or the service console. (aws.amazon.com) Amazon Web Services said customers using Amazon Relational Database Service Custom for Oracle should move those workloads to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, and said the change does not affect Amazon Relational Database Service for Oracle or Amazon Relational Database Service Custom for SQL Server. (aws.amazon.com) The App Runner retreat is quieter than a hard shutdown, but the direction is clear by date and product plan: April 30 closes the front door to new users, and existing customers now have a migration path with a named replacement. (aws.amazon.com )
