AWS DeepRacer

AWS confirms that its managed DeepRacer service ceased to be available in the AWS Console on December 15, 2025.

Sources and shutdown details ↘

AI engineering & model services · 28 Nov 2018 – 15 Dec 2025 · Amazon Web Services

The record

A managed reinforcement-learning workbench for training, evaluating and tuning autonomous racing models in a 3D simulator, entering virtual races and exporting models to a physical car.

Operator at shutdown: Amazon Web Services Company source
Launched: 28 Nov 2018Launch source
Service end: 15 Dec 2025Closure source
Lifespan: 7 years

Sources and verification

AWS DeepRacer FAQs — managed service no longer available ↗ · Checked 27 Oct 2026

Verification notes

Shutdown: December 15, 2025 is the operator-stated end day for the complete managed DeepRacer console service. The current FAQ and events page explicitly confirm completed unavailability; this is not inferred from an elapsed plan. The original shutdown announcement day, cutoff hour and time zone are unknown. The archived scope is the integrated managed training, simulation, evaluation and racing workflow, which did not require owning a physical car. The self-deployed open-source DeepRacer on AWS solution, downloaded models and local vehicle inference remain outside this closure claim. Student-portal and vehicle variants do not receive separate product records. This does not declare the wider AWS platform or reinforcement-learning technology discontinued. No backend or customer-data-deletion audit was performed. Closure source
Dates checked: Verified 27 Oct 2026
AI functionality: AI functionality source
Launch: November 28, 2018 is the official preview announcement and re:Invent workshop launch, not general availability or vehicle shipping. AWS separately reports that the console-based virtual racing circuit opened on April 29, 2019.
Location: United States · Seattle. AWS legal terms list Amazon Web Services, Inc. mailing and courier addresses in Seattle. This is an operator legal-contact city fallback because a product-team operating city is not established. GeoNames populated-place coordinates are rounded to two decimal places for a city-level map point, not an office, race venue or server region. Location source · Coordinate source