Deprecation of AWS Application Discovery Service Discovery Connector

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to end support for AWS Application Discovery Service Discovery Connector (Discovery Connector) effective November 17, 2025. This decision was made to enable focus on the new on-premises discovery tool AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector (Agentless Collector). This decision stems from customer preference to use agentless collection for more than VMware. The Agentless Collector currently supports modules for data collection from VMware virtual machines (VMs), from database and analytics servers, and Windows or Linux servers for network connections. Future capabilities will support additional virtualization platforms, and operating system level collection. The Agentless Collector remains at no cost for customers.

After November 17, 2025, customers will no longer be able to use Discovery Connector to collect information about VMware vCenter Server hosts and VMs. All historic data collected by the Discovery Connector will remain available through the AWS Migration Hub console and the Application Discovery Service APIs. If no actions are taken by the customer, AWS Application Discovery Service will disregard all new information collected by the Discovery Connector after 11/17/2025.

Customers who require discovery beyond 11/17/2025 can install the Agentless Collector as a virtual machine (VM) in your VMware vCenter server environment. Simply follow the Agentless Collector user guide. If you require any assistance, please reach out to AWS Support.