About five years ago, Amazon Cloud Technology announced that Amazon Cloud Technology documentation is now open source on GitHub. After a long period of experimentation, Amazon Cloud Technology will archive most of the repository starting the week of June 5, 2023, and will direct all resources to directly improve the Amazon Cloud Technology documentation and website.
As we all know, the primary source of most Amazon Cloud documentation is on internal systems, which must be manually synced with GitHub repositories. Amazon Cloud Technologies' documentation team tried their best, but keeping the public repository in sync with the internal repository proved difficult and time-consuming, requiring multiple manual steps and some parallel editing. With 262 independent repositories and thousands of feature releases per year, the overhead is very high and actually consumes valuable time that could be used more directly to improve documentation quality.
Amazon Cloud Technology's original intention is to add value to customers through openness and collaboration, but Amazon Cloud Technology learned from customer feedback that this is not the case. After carefully considering many options, Amazon Cloud Technologies has decided to retire the repository and devote all resources to improving the content.
The repositories containing code samples, sample applications, CloudFormation templates, configuration files, and other supplementary resources will remain as is, as these repositories are the primary sources for high engagement.
In order to better improve documentation, Amazon Cloud Technology focuses more resources on user feedback:
Recently, Amazon Cloud Technologies has been observing positive and negative review metrics on a weekly basis and using these metrics as top pointers to areas in the document that could be improved. Feedback received creates tickets that are sent directly to the person or team responsible for the page.