diff --git a/changelog.d/5-internal/remove-sftd-disco b/changelog.d/5-internal/remove-sftd-disco
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0cbcfdde66a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/5-internal/remove-sftd-disco
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+remove sftd_disco (now lives in wireapp/wire-avs-service)
diff --git a/tools/sftd_disco/Dockerfile b/tools/sftd_disco/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 011aac9c6a1..00000000000
--- a/tools/sftd_disco/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-FROM alpine:3.21.3
-
-RUN apk add --no-cache curl bash openssl bind-tools jq
-
-COPY sftd_disco.sh /usr/bin/sftd_disco.sh
-
-ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/sftd_disco.sh"]
diff --git a/tools/sftd_disco/Makefile b/tools/sftd_disco/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 45e71e806c7..00000000000
--- a/tools/sftd_disco/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-.PHONY: docker
-
-DOCKER_TAG = 1.1.1
-
-docker:
-	docker build -t quay.io/wire/sftd_disco:$(DOCKER_TAG) -f Dockerfile . 
diff --git a/tools/sftd_disco/README.md b/tools/sftd_disco/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e78f7679ebe..00000000000
--- a/tools/sftd_disco/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-# sftd-disco
-
-This DISCOvery docker image/bash script converts the result from an SRV DNS lookup of a kubernetes service to a file which can be served by nginx or similar.
-
-This is useful as a sidecar container to the sftd chart in kubernetes to expose the full list of running sftd servers in cases where sftd runs independently from other backend services. See also [the sftd helm chart](https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server/tree/develop/charts/sftd/)
diff --git a/tools/sftd_disco/sftd_disco.sh b/tools/sftd_disco/sftd_disco.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 28e0f5a7ca2..00000000000
--- a/tools/sftd_disco/sftd_disco.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -eo pipefail
-exec 2>&1
-
-# Assumes /etc/wire/sftd-disco/ directory exists.
-
-USAGE="example usage: $0 _sft._tcp.wire-server-sftd.wire.svc.cluster.local"
-srv_name=${1?$USAGE}
-
-old="/etc/wire/sftd-disco/sft_servers_all.json"
-new="${old}.new"
-
-function valid_entry() {
-    # TODO sanity check that this is real dig output
-    return 0
-}
-
-function valid_url() {
-    #TODO basic sanity check
-    return 0
-}
-
-# for a given SRV record
-# 1. lookup the record
-# 2. for each entry: extract host and port and call 'curl host:port/sft/url'
-# 4. save the resulting URLs as a json array to a file
-# this file can then be served from nginx running besides sft
-function upstream() {
-    name=$1
-    entries=$(dig +short +retries=3 +search SRV "${name}" | sort)
-    unset servers
-    comma=""
-    IFS=$'\t\n'
-    for entry in $entries; do
-        if valid_entry "$entry"; then
-            sft_host_port=$(echo "$entry" | awk '{print $4":"$3}')
-            sft_url=$(curl -s http://"$sft_host_port"/sft/url | xargs)
-            if valid_url "$sft_url"; then
-                servers+=("$comma"'"'"$sft_url"'"')
-                comma=","
-            fi
-        fi
-    done
-    # shellcheck disable=SC2128
-    if [ -n "$servers" ]; then
-        echo '{"sft_servers_all": ['"${servers[*]}"']}' | jq >${new}
-    else
-        printf "" >>${new}
-    fi
-}
-
-function routing_disco() {
-    srv_name=$1
-    ivl=$(echo | awk '{ srand(); printf("%f", 2.5 + rand() * 1.5) }')
-
-    [[ -f $old ]] || touch -d "1970-01-01" $old
-
-    echo "" >${new}
-    upstream "$srv_name"
-
-    diff -q $old $new || {
-        echo upstream change found, replacing $old with $new
-        mv $new $old
-    }
-
-    rm -f $new
-
-    echo done, sleeping "$ivl"
-    sleep "$ivl"
-}
-
-while true; do
-    routing_disco "$srv_name"
-done