AWS Ends Support for DeepComposer AI Music Keyboard
AWS is shutting down DeepComposer, its five-year-old MIDI keyboard and cloud service that allowed users to generate music using artificial intelligence. The service remains available until September 2025 before it disappears entirely.
AWS officially ends support for DeepComposer, its unique AI-powered MIDI keyboard and accompanying cloud service. The company decides to shut down the 32-key musical keyboard after five years, giving users until September 17, 2025, to access their saved data and use the console normally. AWS program manager Kanchan Jagannathan shares the news in a recent blog post, marking the quiet conclusion to the tech giant's experimental hardware journey.
Launched in 2019 at the re:Invent conference, DeepComposer allows users to record short melodies and transform them into full-length songs using genre-specific generative AI models. The system originally targets developers before expanding to all AWS customers in 2020 with a $99 price tag. Users easily export their AI-generated tracks to platforms like SoundCloud, though the product always aims to serve as an educational tool rather than a professional music production suite.
The device receives mixed reviews during its lifespan, with many users complaining about unresponsive keys and underwhelming musical output. DeepComposer now joins a growing list of discontinued AWS AI devices, following the previous shutdowns of the DeepLens smart camera and the physical DeepRacer autonomous car. While the physical hardware disappears, AWS continues to explore generative AI through its core cloud services.