diff --git a/buildspec/release/00clonerepo.yml b/buildspec/release/00clonerepo.yml
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index 3fbf222ce9a..00000000000
--- a/buildspec/release/00clonerepo.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-version: 0.2
-
-env:
-    variables:
-        NODE_OPTIONS: '--max-old-space-size=8192'
-
-phases:
-    install:
-        runtime-versions:
-            nodejs: 16
-
-    pre_build:
-        commands:
-            # Check for implicit env vars passed from the release pipeline.
-            - test -n "${TOOLKITS_GITHUB_REPO_OWNER}"
-            - test -n "${TARGET_BRANCH}"
-
-    build:
-        commands:
-            - git clone https://github.com/${TOOLKITS_GITHUB_REPO_OWNER}/aws-toolkit-vscode.git aws-toolkit-vscode
-            # checkout the target branch as we want to commit to it later to update versions
-            - cd aws-toolkit-vscode && git checkout ${TARGET_BRANCH}
-
-artifacts:
-    base-directory: aws-toolkit-vscode
-    files:
-        - '**/*'
diff --git a/buildspec/release/10changeversion.yml b/buildspec/release/10changeversion.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a43a5f515f..00000000000
--- a/buildspec/release/10changeversion.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-version: 0.2
-
-env:
-    variables:
-        NODE_OPTIONS: '--max-old-space-size=8192'
-
-phases:
-    pre_build:
-        commands:
-            - aws codeartifact login --tool npm --domain "$TOOLKITS_CODEARTIFACT_DOMAIN" --domain-owner "$TOOLKITS_ACCOUNT_ID" --repository "$TOOLKITS_CODEARTIFACT_REPO"
-            - test -n "${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-
-    install:
-        runtime-versions:
-            nodejs: 16
-
-    build:
-        commands:
-            - |
-                echo "TARGET_EXTENSION=${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-                echo "Removing SNAPSHOT from version string"
-                git config --global user.name "aws-toolkit-automation"
-                git config --global user.email "<>"
-                VERSION=$(node -e "console.log(require('./packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}/package.json').version);" | (IFS="-"; read -r version unused && echo "$version"))
-                DATE=$(date)
-                npm version --no-git-tag-version "$VERSION" -w packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}
-                # 'createRelease' uses ts-node.
-                # Ignore broken "postinstall" script in "src.gen/@amzn/codewhisperer-streaming/package.json".
-                npm install --ignore-scripts ts-node
-            - |
-                npm run createRelease -w packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}
-            - |
-                git add packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}/package.json
-                git add package-lock.json
-                git commit -m "Release $VERSION"
-                echo "tagging commit"
-                # e.g. amazonq/v1.0.0. Ensure this tag is up to date with 50githubrelease.yml
-                git tag -a "${TARGET_EXTENSION}/v${VERSION}" -m "${TARGET_EXTENSION} version $VERSION $DATE"
-                # cleanup
-                git clean -fxd
-                git reset HEAD --hard
-
-artifacts:
-    files:
-        - '**/*'
diff --git a/buildspec/release/20buildrelease.yml b/buildspec/release/20buildrelease.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8af4ef5df4f..00000000000
--- a/buildspec/release/20buildrelease.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-version: 0.2
-
-env:
-    variables:
-        NODE_OPTIONS: '--max-old-space-size=8192'
-
-phases:
-    pre_build:
-        commands:
-            - aws codeartifact login --tool npm --domain "$TOOLKITS_CODEARTIFACT_DOMAIN" --domain-owner "$TOOLKITS_ACCOUNT_ID" --repository "$TOOLKITS_CODEARTIFACT_REPO"
-            - test -n "${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-    install:
-        runtime-versions:
-            nodejs: 16
-
-        commands:
-            - apt-get update
-            - apt-get install -y libgtk-3-dev libxss1 xvfb
-            - apt-get install -y libnss3-dev libasound2
-            - apt-get install -y libasound2-plugins
-    build:
-        commands:
-            - echo "TARGET_EXTENSION=${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-            # --unsafe-perm is needed because we run as root
-            - npm ci --unsafe-perm
-            - npm run package -w packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}
-            - cp packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}/package.json ./package.json
-            - NUM_VSIX=$(ls -1q *.vsix | wc -l)
-            - |
-                if [ "$NUM_VSIX" != "1" ]; then
-                  echo "Number of .vsix to release is not exactly 1, it is: ${NUM_VSIX}"
-                  exit 1
-                fi
-
-artifacts:
-    files:
-        - '*.vsix'
-        - package.json
diff --git a/buildspec/release/30closegate.yml b/buildspec/release/30closegate.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 618613e782f..00000000000
--- a/buildspec/release/30closegate.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-version: 0.2
-
-phases:
-    install:
-        runtime-versions:
-            nodejs: 16
-
-    pre_build:
-        commands:
-            - STAGE_NAME=Release
-            - PIPELINE=$(echo $CODEBUILD_INITIATOR | sed -e 's/codepipeline\///')
-    build:
-        commands:
-            - |
-                aws codepipeline disable-stage-transition \
-                  --pipeline-name "$PIPELINE" \
-                  --stage-name "$STAGE_NAME" \
-                  --transition-type "Inbound" \
-                  --reason "Disabled by CloseGate (automation)"
diff --git a/buildspec/release/35opengate.yml b/buildspec/release/35opengate.yml
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index 45362ac14e3..00000000000
--- a/buildspec/release/35opengate.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-version: 0.2
-
-phases:
-    install:
-        runtime-versions:
-            nodejs: 16
-
-    pre_build:
-        commands:
-            - STAGE_NAME=SourceWithGit
-            - PIPELINE=$(echo $CODEBUILD_INITIATOR | sed -e 's/codepipeline\///')
-    build:
-        commands:
-            - |
-                aws codepipeline enable-stage-transition \
-                  --pipeline-name "$PIPELINE" \
-                  --stage-name "$STAGE_NAME" \
-                  --transition-type "Inbound"
diff --git a/buildspec/release/40pushtogithub.yml b/buildspec/release/40pushtogithub.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index a31f34031a3..00000000000
--- a/buildspec/release/40pushtogithub.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-version: 0.2
-
-env:
-    variables:
-        NODE_OPTIONS: '--max-old-space-size=8192'
-
-phases:
-    install:
-        runtime-versions:
-            nodejs: 16
-
-    pre_build:
-        commands:
-            # Check for implicit env vars passed from the release pipeline.
-            - test -n "${TOOLKITS_GITHUB_REPO_OWNER}"
-            - test -n "${GITHUB_TOKEN}"
-            - test -n "${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-            - test -n "${TARGET_BRANCH}"
-            - REPO_URL="https://$GITHUB_TOKEN@github.com/${TOOLKITS_GITHUB_REPO_OWNER}/aws-toolkit-vscode.git"
-
-    build:
-        commands:
-            - |
-                echo "TARGET_EXTENSION=${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-                git config --global user.name "aws-toolkit-automation"
-                git config --global user.email "<>"
-                git remote add originWithCreds "$REPO_URL"
-                echo "Adding SNAPSHOT to next version string"
-                # Increase minor version
-                npm version --no-git-tag-version minor -w packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}
-                VERSION=$(node -e "console.log(require('./packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}/package.json').version);")
-                # Append -SNAPSHOT
-                npm version --no-git-tag-version "${VERSION}-SNAPSHOT" -w packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}
-                git add packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}/package.json
-                git add package-lock.json
-                git commit -m "Update version to snapshot version: ${VERSION}-SNAPSHOT"
-            - |
-                if [ "$STAGE" != "prod" ]; then
-                  echo "SKIPPED (stage=${STAGE}): 'git push originWithCreds ${TARGET_BRANCH}'"
-                  exit 0
-                fi
-                echo "pushing to github"
-                git fetch originWithCreds ${TARGET_BRANCH}
-                git merge --no-edit -m "Merge release into ${TARGET_BRANCH}" FETCH_HEAD
-                git push originWithCreds --tags
-                git push originWithCreds ${TARGET_BRANCH}
diff --git a/buildspec/release/50githubrelease.yml b/buildspec/release/50githubrelease.yml
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index df542cbee14..00000000000
--- a/buildspec/release/50githubrelease.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-version: 0.2
-
-phases:
-    install:
-        runtime-versions:
-            nodejs: 16
-
-        Commands:
-            # GitHub recently changed their GPG signing key for their CLI tool
-            # These are the updated installation instructions:
-            # https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/docs/install_linux.md#debian-ubuntu-linux-raspberry-pi-os-apt
-            - curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg | dd of=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg
-            - chmod go+r /usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg
-            - echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list > /dev/null
-            - apt update
-            - apt install gh -y
-
-    pre_build:
-        commands:
-            # Check for implicit env vars passed from the release pipeline.
-            - test -n "${TOOLKITS_GITHUB_REPO_OWNER}"
-            - test -n "${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-            - REPO="${TOOLKITS_GITHUB_REPO_OWNER}/aws-toolkit-vscode"
-
-    build:
-        commands:
-            - echo "TARGET_EXTENSION=${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-            # pull in the build artifacts
-            - cp -r ${CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR_buildPipeline}/* .
-            - VERSION=$(node -e "console.log(require('./packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}/package.json').version);")
-            - UPLOAD_TARGET=$(ls *.vsix)
-            - HASH_UPLOAD_TARGET=${UPLOAD_TARGET}.sha384
-            - 'HASH=$(sha384sum -b $UPLOAD_TARGET | cut -d" " -f1)'
-            - echo "Writing hash to $HASH_UPLOAD_TARGET"
-            - echo $HASH > $HASH_UPLOAD_TARGET
-            - echo "posting $VERSION with sha384 hash $HASH to GitHub"
-            - PKG_DISPLAY_NAME=$(grep -m 1 displayName packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}/package.json | grep -o '[a-zA-z][^\"]\+' | tail -n1)
-            - RELEASE_MESSAGE="${PKG_DISPLAY_NAME} for VS Code $VERSION"
-            # Only set amazonq as "latest" release. This ensures https://api.github.com/repos/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode/releases/latest
-            # consistently points to the amazonq artifact, instead of being "random".
-            - LATEST="$([ "$TARGET_EXTENSION" = amazonq ] && echo '--latest' || echo '--latest=false' )"
-            - |
-                if [ "$STAGE" = "prod" ]; then
-                  # note: the tag arg passed here should match what is in 10changeversion.yml
-                  gh release create "$LATEST" --repo $REPO --title "$PKG_DISPLAY_NAME $VERSION" --notes "$RELEASE_MESSAGE" -- "${TARGET_EXTENSION}/v${VERSION}" "$UPLOAD_TARGET" "$HASH_UPLOAD_TARGET"
-                else
-                  echo "SKIPPED (stage=${STAGE}): 'gh release create --repo $REPO'"
-                fi
diff --git a/buildspec/release/60publish.yml b/buildspec/release/60publish.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0141b6e68c2..00000000000
--- a/buildspec/release/60publish.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-#
-# Publishes the release vsix to the marketplace.
-#
-
-version: 0.2
-
-phases:
-    install:
-        runtime-versions:
-            nodejs: 20
-        commands:
-            - apt-get update
-            - apt-get install -y libsecret-1-dev
-
-    pre_build:
-        commands:
-            # Check for implicit env vars passed from the release pipeline.
-            - test -n "${VS_MARKETPLACE_PAT}"
-            - test -n "${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-
-    build:
-        commands:
-            - echo "TARGET_EXTENSION=${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-            # pull in the build artifacts
-            - cp -r ${CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR_buildPipeline}/* .
-            - |
-                UPLOAD_TARGET=$(ls *.vsix)
-            - |
-                echo "Publishing to vscode marketplace: $UPLOAD_TARGET"
-                if [ "$STAGE" != "prod" ]; then
-                  echo "SKIPPED (stage=${STAGE}): 'npx vsce publish --pat xxx --packagePath ${UPLOAD_TARGET}'"
-                else
-                  npx vsce publish --pat "$VS_MARKETPLACE_PAT" --packagePath "$UPLOAD_TARGET"
-                fi
-            - |
-                echo "Publishing to openvsx marketplace: $UPLOAD_TARGET"
-                if [ "$STAGE" != "prod" ]; then
-                  echo "SKIPPED (stage=${STAGE}): 'npx --yes ovsx publish --pat xxx "${UPLOAD_TARGET}"'"
-                else
-                  npx --yes ovsx publish --pat "$OVSX_PAT" "$UPLOAD_TARGET"
-                fi
diff --git a/buildspec/release/70checkmarketplace.yml b/buildspec/release/70checkmarketplace.yml
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index 670dd2c7508..00000000000
--- a/buildspec/release/70checkmarketplace.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-version: 0.2
-
-phases:
-    install:
-        runtime-versions:
-            nodejs: 16
-
-        commands:
-            - apt update
-            - apt install -y wget gpg
-            - curl -sSL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > packages.microsoft.gpg
-            - install -o root -g root -m 644 packages.microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
-            - sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list'
-            - apt update
-            - apt install -y code
-
-    pre_build:
-        commands:
-            # Check for implicit env vars passed from the release pipeline.
-            - test -n "${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-
-    build:
-        commands:
-            - VERSION=$(node -e "console.log(require('./packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}/package.json').version);")
-            # get extension name, if in beta, use some hard-coded recent version
-            - |
-                if [ "${TARGET_EXTENSION}" = "amazonq" ]; then
-                  extension_name="amazonwebservices.amazon-q-vscode"
-                  [ "$STAGE" != "prod" ] && VERSION="1.43.0" || true
-                elif [ "${TARGET_EXTENSION}" = "toolkit" ]; then
-                  extension_name="amazonwebservices.aws-toolkit-vscode"
-                  [ "$STAGE" != "prod" ] && VERSION="3.42.0" || true
-                else
-                  echo checkmarketplace: "Unknown TARGET_EXTENSION: ${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-                  exit 1
-                fi
-                if [ "$STAGE" != "prod" ]; then
-                  echo "checkmarketplace: Non-production stage detected. Installing hardcoded version '${VERSION}'."
-                fi
-            # keep installing the desired extension version until successful. Otherwise fail on codebuild timeout (1 hour).
-            - |
-                while true; do
-                  code --uninstall-extension "${extension_name}" --no-sandbox --user-data-dir /tmp/vscode
-                  code --install-extension "${extension_name}@${VERSION}" --no-sandbox --user-data-dir /tmp/vscode || true
-                  cur_version=$(code --list-extensions --show-versions --no-sandbox --user-data-dir /tmp/vscode | grep ${extension_name} | cut -d'@' -f2)
-                  if [ "${cur_version}" = "${VERSION}" ]; then
-                    echo "checkmarketplace: Extension ${extension_name} is updated to version '${cur_version}.'"
-                    break
-                  else
-                    echo "checkmarketplace: Expected extension version '${VERSION}' has not been successfully installed. Retrying..."
-                  fi
-                  sleep 120 # Wait for 2 minutes before retrying
-                done
diff --git a/buildspec/release/80notify.yml b/buildspec/release/80notify.yml
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index 062895d09d0..00000000000
--- a/buildspec/release/80notify.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-version: 0.2
-
-phases:
-    install:
-        runtime-versions:
-            nodejs: 20
-
-    pre_build:
-        commands:
-            # Check for implicit env vars passed from the release pipeline.
-            - test -n "${NOTIFY_URL}"
-            - test -n "${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-
-    build:
-        commands:
-            - echo "TARGET_EXTENSION=${TARGET_EXTENSION}"
-            - export EXTENSION_NAME=$([ "$TARGET_EXTENSION" = "amazonq" ] && echo "Amazon Q" || echo "AWS Toolkit")
-            - export VERSION=$(node -e "console.log(require('./packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}/package.json').version);")
-            - export CHANGELOG=$(cat packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}/CHANGELOG.md | perl -ne 'BEGIN{$/="\n\n"} print if $. == 2')
-            - MESSAGE=$(envsubst < ./buildspec/release/notify.txt | jq -R -s '.')
-            - echo "Will post message - \n\n${MESSAGE}\n"
-            - echo "Full command - 'curl -v POST \"[NOTIFY_URL]\" -H \"Content-Type:application/json\" --data \"{\"Content\":${MESSAGE}}\"'"
-            - |
-                if [ "$STAGE" != "prod" ]; then
-                  echo "SKIPPED (stage=${STAGE}): curl -v POST ..."
-                  exit 0
-                fi
-                curl -v POST "${NOTIFY_URL}" -H "Content-Type:application/json" --data "{\"Content\":${MESSAGE}}"
diff --git a/buildspec/release/notify.txt b/buildspec/release/notify.txt
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index 919ee5f4be0..00000000000
--- a/buildspec/release/notify.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Released ${EXTENSION_NAME} v${VERSION} for VS Code
-
-${CHANGELOG}
-
-Changelog: https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode/blob/master/packages/${TARGET_EXTENSION}/CHANGELOG.md
-Release Artifact: https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-vscode/releases/tag/${TARGET_EXTENSION}/v${VERSION}
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