Get ready to switch: AWS is dropping support for IE11

With Microsoft quickly ending support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) throughout its Microsoft 365 apps, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has additionally reminded its customers that it too will quickly drop IE 11 support for its key web sites and purposes. 

AWS is phasing out IE 11 support from July 31 via to July 31, 2022. This week, it stopped testing whether or not IE 11 functioned accurately on new options within the AWS Management Console options and new net pages. 

However, for now it should repair IE 11-related bugs which can be particular for present options and pages but it surely’s additionally going to quickly begin prodding customers to improve to a contemporary browser, according to an update from the cloud company.  

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In “late 2021”, AWS will difficulty pop-up notifications for these utilizing IE 11 to entry pages or purposes. AWS will even present reminders to improve to Chromium-based Edge, Firefox, or Chrome. 

Web-based providers that will probably be affected by degraded IE 11 support embody Amazon Chime or Amazon Honeycode, AWS Documentation, AWS Marketing, AWS Marketplace, and AWS Support. 

“One yr from at the moment we are going to discontinue our support for IE 11 and you will want to use a browser that we support,” notes AWS spokesperson Jeff Barr. 

Microsoft is dropping IE 11 support for apps like Teams and Outlook on the web from August 17, a yr after saying its plan to drop the legacy browser. 

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It’s additionally dropping support for IE on many versions of Windows 10 on June 15, 2022 and inspiring clients to transfer to the brand new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser. 

Microsoft launched IE 11 in October 2013 together with Windows 8.1. The new Edge has an IE11 compatibility function for displaying Outlook content material. It’s a whole model of IE’s previous Trident engine that runs in an Edge tab. As ZDNet’s Simon Bisson points out, it is probably to be tough for admins to preserve this function.