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A 12-month notice floor gives customers meaningful lead time to plan for the loss of material functionality before it is removed.
Customers are entitled to at least 12 months' advance notice before AWS removes material functionality from a generally available Service they are actively using.
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"We will provide you at least 12 months' prior notice before discontinuing a material functionality of a Service that we make generally available to customers and that you are using.Excerpt from AWS's Customer Agreement
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A 12-month notice floor gives customers meaningful lead time to plan for the loss of material functionality before it is removed.
Customers are entitled to at least 12 months' advance notice before AWS removes material functionality from a generally available Service they are actively using.
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