AWS to end new App Runner signups, trim RDS Custom
AWS announced it will stop accepting new App Runner customers after April 30 and plans to discontinue RDS Custom for Oracle in one year, signalling a narrowing of some managed service offerings. The notice was posted on social channels summarizing AWS’s upcoming shutdowns for those services (x.com/itmedia_news/status/2043863073145139222).
Amazon Web Services is closing one door and setting a clock on another: new customers can no longer join App Runner after April 30, 2026. (docs.aws.amazon.com) Amazon Web Services says existing App Runner customers can keep running their services, but the company “do[es] not plan to introduce new features” for the product. The App Runner product page now carries that notice at the top. (aws.amazon.com) App Runner is Amazon Web Services’ managed container service for web apps and application programming interfaces, built to let developers deploy code without managing servers directly. Its documentation now repeats the April 30, 2026 cutoff across setup, console, and release-notes pages. (docs.aws.amazon.com) Amazon Web Services is also ending support for Amazon Relational Database Service Custom for Oracle on March 31, 2027. After that date, customers will no longer be able to access the service’s console or its Oracle resources. (docs.aws.amazon.com) Relational Database Service Custom is the version of Amazon’s database platform aimed at legacy and packaged software that needs operating-system and database-level access. Amazon Web Services says that model gives customers more control than standard Relational Database Service, but also more responsibility, “similar to” Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. (aws.amazon.com, aws.amazon.com) The two notices narrow Amazon Web Services’ menu in different ways: App Runner stays online for current users, while Relational Database Service Custom for Oracle gets a fixed end date. In both cases, the changes appeared first in official Amazon Web Services documentation rather than in a broad product launch post. (docs.aws.amazon.com, docs.aws.amazon.com) Amazon Web Services has not, on the cited notice pages, given a public reason for either move or named direct replacement services. The App Runner page tells prospective users to sign up before April 30, 2026 if they want access, while the Oracle database pages point current customers to an end-of-support timeline ending March 31, 2027. (docs.aws.amazon.com, docs.aws.amazon.com) For customers, the dates are now the main fact to track: April 30, 2026 for new App Runner access, and March 31, 2027 for the end of Relational Database Service Custom for Oracle. Existing users of both services still have time, but only one of them has a posted shutdown date. (docs.aws.amazon.com, docs.aws.amazon.com)
