After careful consideration, we decided to end support for Amazon FinSpace, effective October 7, 2026. Amazon FinSpace will no longer accept new customers beginning October 7, 2025. As an existing customer with an Amazon FinSpace environment created before October 7, 2025, you can continue to use the service as normal. After October 7, 2026, you will no longer be able to use Amazon FinSpace. For more information, see [Amazon FinSpace end of support](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/finspace/latest/userguide/amazon-finspace-end-of-support.html). 

# Supported system commands
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 System commands control the q environment. The following table shows a list of system commands that FinSpace supports.

[\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/finspace/latest/userguide/interacting-with-kdb-system-commands.html)

## Helper environment variables
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You can quickly access user directories through the following environment variables that return a string of the folder path. 


| Helper environment variables  | Use for  | Directory | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| .aws.akcp | Primary user code path. | /opt/kx/app/code | 
| .aws.akcsp |  Secondary user code path that's available only for **General purpose** cluster.  | /opt/kx/app/code\$1scratch | 
| .aws.akscp |  Primarily used for handling savedown functionality with an RDB cluster.  | /opt/kx/app/scratch | 

## Loading databases relative to code directory
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We have added a symlink to the code directory to allow loading of database relative to the code path. For example, if the database is labeled as *kxDatabase* and the current working directory is /`opt/kx/app/code` then the database can be loaded as `\l /kxDatabase`.