Praise Amazon for raising this service from the dead

Opinion For years, Google has seemingly indulged a corporate fetish of taking products that are beloved, then killing them. AWS has been on a different kick lately: Killing services that frankly shouldn't have seen the light of day.

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").

An unprecedented reversal

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 ...