holy smokes, #saltstack project dumping this a few days before the end of month on the community:

https://saltproject.io/blog/salt-project-package-repo-migration-and-guidance/

"In order to integrate with Broadcom infrastructure and policies, we are migrating off of AWS public cloud infrastructure and consolidating services used by Salt Project by end of October 2024."

and it was published on...drum roll please:
"by Salt Project Team — Oct 28, 2024"

well played broadcom, i guess if you screw all your users royally they'll leave and you won't have to support them anymore.