diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/nixops/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/nixops/default.nix
index d9d31d94ac96..88c426565fc4 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/nixops/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/nixops/default.nix
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ let
     };
 
     plugins = ps: _super: with ps; rec {
-      nixops-aws = callPackage ./plugins/nixops-aws.nix { };
       nixops-digitalocean = callPackage ./plugins/nixops-digitalocean.nix { };
       nixops-encrypted-links = callPackage ./plugins/nixops-encrypted-links.nix { };
       nixops-hercules-ci = callPackage ./plugins/nixops-hercules-ci.nix { };
       nixops-vbox = callPackage ./plugins/nixops-vbox.nix { };
       nixos-modules-contrib = callPackage ./plugins/nixos-modules-contrib.nix { };
 
+      nixops-aws = throw "nixops-aws was broken and was removed from nixpkgs";
       nixops-gce = throw "nixops-gce was broken and was removed from nixpkgs";
       nixops-libvirtd = throw "nixops-libvirtd was broken and was removed from nixpkgs";
       nixops-hetzner = throw "nixops-hetzner was broken and was removed from nixpkgs";
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ let
     selectedPlugins = [];
 
     # selector is a function mapping pythonPackages to a list of plugins
-    # e.g. nixops_unstable.withPlugins (ps: with ps; [ nixops-aws ])
+    # e.g. nixops_unstable.withPlugins (ps: with ps; [ nixops-digitalocean ])
     withPlugins = selector:
       this.extend (this: _old: {
         selectedPlugins = selector this.availablePlugins;
@@ -109,8 +109,6 @@ in
 
   # Not recommended; too fragile.
   nixops_unstable_full = minimal.withPlugins (ps: [
-    # currently broken
-    # ps.nixops-aws
     ps.nixops-digitalocean
     ps.nixops-encrypted-links
     ps.nixops-hercules-ci
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/nixops/plugins/nixops-aws.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/nixops/plugins/nixops-aws.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 895794d3e0f6..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/cluster/nixops/plugins/nixops-aws.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-{ lib
-, buildPythonPackage
-, fetchFromGitHub
-, unstableGitUpdater
-, poetry-core
-, boto
-, boto3
-, nixops
-, nixos-modules-contrib
-, typing-extensions
-}:
-
-buildPythonPackage {
-  pname = "nixops-aws";
-  version = "1.0.0-unstable-2024-02-29";
-  pyproject = true;
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "NixOS";
-    repo = "nixops-aws";
-    rev = "d173b2f14ec767d782ceab45fb22b32fe3b5a1f7";
-    hash = "sha256-ocTtc7POt1bugb9Bki2ew2Eh5uc933GftNw1twoOJsc=";
-  };
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace pyproject.toml \
-    --replace poetry.masonry.api poetry.core.masonry.api \
-    --replace "poetry>=" "poetry-core>="
-  '';
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    poetry-core
-  ];
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    nixops
-  ];
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
-    boto
-    boto3
-    nixos-modules-contrib
-    typing-extensions
-  ];
-
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "nixops_aws" ];
-
-  passthru.updateScript = unstableGitUpdater {
-    tagPrefix = "v";
-  };
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "AWS plugin for NixOps";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixops-aws";
-    license = licenses.lgpl3Only;
-    broken = true; # fails with `nose-1.3.7 not supported for interpreter python3.12`
-    maintainers = nixops.meta.maintainers;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 43b103ea11fa..b3e31eab2673 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -37834,7 +37834,7 @@ with pkgs;
     # Not recommended; too fragile
     nixops_unstable_full;
 
-  # Useful with ofborg, e.g. commit prefix `nixops_unstablePlugins.nixops-aws: ...` to trigger automatically.
+  # Useful with ofborg, e.g. commit prefix `nixops_unstablePlugins.nixops-digitalocean: ...` to trigger automatically.
   nixops_unstablePlugins = recurseIntoAttrs nixops_unstable_minimal.availablePlugins;
 
   /*