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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Amazon is discontinuing its Honeycode app-building cloud service.</li><li>The announcement confirms Insider's earlier report that Amazon was phasing out the service.</li></ul>Amazon announced plans to discontinue its Honeycode app-building cloud service, confirming <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-aws-honeycode-cloud-service-may-be-on-way-out-2023-7">Insider's earlier report</a> that the company was phasing out the service."To our valued customers: After careful consideration, we have made the decision to end the Amazon Honeycode beta service, effective February 29, 2024," Amazon's <a target="_blank" href="https://honeycodecommunity.aws/c/announcements/7">Honeycode Community page</a> says.In the meantime, the company is not allowing new customer sign-ups or account upgrades for existing customers."After this date, you will no longer be able to use Honeycode or any of the apps you created in Honeycode," the page says.Amazon is helping customers migrate their Honeycode apps and won't charge them for usage after July 31, 2023, a spokesperson said."Amazon's Day 1 culture allows us to experiment and innovate quickly for our customers, in part because we set a high bar for our services and stay fiercely self-critical to identify any sign that a project won't meet our customers' expectations," the spokesperson said in a statement. "We are grateful to our customers for the feedback they've shared during the beta."<a target="_blank" href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/announcing-amazon-honeycode/">Launched in 2020</a>, Honeycode was Amazon's answer to "<a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/top-low-code-no-code-startups-investors-2020-1">low-code</a>" development, which uses a simple drag-and-drop interface to help users easily build apps without advanced <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-ai-technology-end-of-coding-software-developers-jobs-2023-4">software engineering skills</a>.Honeycode started as a high-profile project at Amazon. Initially, Adam Bosworth, a star executive with years of experience at Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce, ran the project. Bosworth left Amazon in 2020, and Adam Seligman, formerly Mozilla's chief operating officer, replaced him in 2021. By the time Amazon Web Services' annual re:Invent conference rolled around that year, there were already rumblings about its plan to phase out Honeycode, a person familiar with the matter said at the time. Seligman became the vice president of developer experience at Amazon in August 2022 and recently took on a different role within the new generative-AI team at AWS.Are you an Amazon employee, or do you have insight to share? Contact the reporter Eugene Kim via the encrypted-messaging apps Signal or Telegram (+1-650-942-3061) or email (<a target="_blank" href="mailto:ekim@insider.com">ekim@insider.com</a>). Reach out using a nonwork device. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/insider-guide-to-securely-sharing-whistleblower-information-about-powerful-institutions-2021-10">Check out Insider's source guide</a> for other tips on sharing information securely.Contact the reporter Ashley Stewart via the encrypted messaging app Signal (+1-425-344-8242) or email (<a target="_blank" href="mailto:astewart@insider.com">astewart@insider.com</a>).

Amazon confirms plans to discontinue its Honeycode app-building service

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="18635" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Amazon">Amazon</keyword> is launching a new service called Honeycode that enables <keyword id="291131" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="AWS">AWS</keyword> customers to build apps for their business without any coding experience.</li><li>It's designed for businesses that need apps for tasks like event scheduling and inventory management, and Slack is one of its first users.</li><li>The service could give Amazon another leg up over rivals like <keyword id="10387" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Microsoft">Microsoft</keyword> in the cloud services space. </li></ul>Amazon is <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200624005803/en/">launching a new service</a> called Honeycode that makes it possible for Amazon Web Services customers to build their own apps without any coding experience.The service, which Amazon announced on Wednesday, will be free for up to 20 users. After that, customers can pay to add more users and additional storage.The service is designed for companies that need to build apps for event scheduling, customer-relationship management, and content and inventory tracking among other tasks. Rather than using a spreadsheet to track such data or hiring a developer with coding experience to build management apps, Amazon is hoping that Honeycode will serve as a compelling alternative.Workplace communication software provider Slack and paid image-sharing service SmugMug are among the first to use Honeycode, and it's now available in Oregon with more regions coming soon.Honeycode's interface will take the form of a spreadsheet, making it easy to manage for those that are familiar with office tools but have no coding experience. Its backend, however, will be powered by an AWS-development database."Many teams try to use simple spreadsheets as a Band-Aid to manage these tasks, but spreadsheets lack true database-like capabilities to sort and filter data, make collaboration with others hard to do, and are difficult to use on mobile devices," Amazon wrote in a statement announcing the product. "Customers try to solve for the static nature of spreadsheets by emailing them back and forth, but all of the emailing just compounds the inefficiency because email is slow, doesn't scale, and introduces versioning and data syncing errors."Amazon's AWS is the market leader for the cloud infrastructure as a service market, with research firm Gartner estimating in 2019 that <a href="https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2019-07-29-gartner-says-worldwide-iaas-public-cloud-services-market-grew-31point3-percent-in-2018">Amazon had accounted for</a> 47.8% of the market. Offering a new perk, like easy tools for building apps, could help Amazon keep its stronghold over Microsoft and other rivals.AWS is also Amazon's biggest moneymaker, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-earnings-report-q1-revenue-profit-2020-4">accounting for 77%</a> of the company's total operating profit.Although Amazon's tool seems squarely aimed at businesses that need easy-to-use management tools and may lack coding experience, Honeycode is the latest effort by a large <keyword id="6358815" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tech">tech</keyword> company to introduce app building to non-technical audiences. Google, for example, <a href="https://time.com/5243949/google-grasshopper-game/">launched a game</a> called Grasshopper in 2018 that's meant to teach adults the basic principles of coding. Apple, meanwhile, has <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-expands-everyone-can-code-to-bring-more-coding-resources-to-teachers-and-students/">built school curriculum</a> to help elementary and middle school students get into coding.

Amazon is launching a new service for building apps even if you don't know how to code

Seattle, June 25 (IANS) Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is the Cloud arm of Amazon, has announced a new Cloud-based service that allows customers to build powerful mobile and web applications with no programming skills required. Called Amazon Honeycode, the fully-managed service allows low-code or no-code software developers use a simple visual application builder to create highly interactive web and mobile apps backed by a powerful AWS-built database, to perform tasks like tracking data over time and notifying users of changes, routing approvals, and facilitating interactive business processes. "Customers have told us that the need for custom applications far outstrips the capacity of developers to create them. Now with Amazon Honeycode, almost anyone can create powerful custom mobile and web applications without the need to write code," said Larry Augustin, Vice President, Amazon Web Services. Amazon Honeycode is available today in US West (Oregon) with more regions coming soon, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. People who need apps to track and manage things like process approvals, event scheduling, customer relationship management, user surveys, to-do lists, and content and inventory tracking no longer need to do so by error-prone methods like emailing spreadsheets or documents, or hiring and waiting for developers to build costly custom applications. Using Amazon Honeycode, customers can create applications that range in complexity from a task-tracking application for a small team to a project management system that manages a complex workflow for multiple teams or departments. Customers can get started creating applications in minutes, build applications with up to 20 users for free, and only pay for the users and storage for larger applications. Applications built using Amazon Honeycode leverage the full power and scale of AWS, and can easily scale up to 100,000 rows in each workbook, without users having to worry about building, managing, and maintaining the underlying hardware and software. In Amazon Honeycode, customers can get started by selecting a pre-built template, where the data model, business logic, and applications are pre-defined and ready-to-use (PO approvals, time-off reporting, inventory management, etc.). They can import data into a blank workbook, use the familiar spreadsheet interface to define the data model, and design the application screens with objects like lists, buttons, and input fields, said AWS. "We're excited about the opportunity that Amazon Honeycode creates for teams to build apps to drive and adapt to today's ever-changing business landscape," said Brad Armstrong, VP of Business and Corporate Development, Slack. --IANS na/

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