diff --git a/addon/-private/global.js b/addon/-private/global.js
deleted file mode 100644
index be3d0e4a4c1..00000000000
--- a/addon/-private/global.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-/* globals global, window, self */
-
-// originally from https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/blob/c0bd26639f50efd6a03ee5b87035fd200e313b8e/packages/ember-environment/lib/global.js
-
-// from lodash to catch fake globals
-function checkGlobal(value) {
-  return (value && value.Object === Object) ? value : undefined;
-}
-
-// element ids can ruin global miss checks
-function checkElementIdShadowing(value) {
-  return (value && value.nodeType === undefined) ? value : undefined;
-}
-
-// export real global
-export default checkGlobal(checkElementIdShadowing(typeof global === 'object' && global)) ||
-  checkGlobal(typeof self === 'object' && self) ||
-  checkGlobal(typeof window === 'object' && window) ||
-  new Function('return this')(); // eval outside of strict mode
diff --git a/addon/-private/index.js b/addon/-private/index.js
index 8ffd4115426..0c529fcd05d 100644
--- a/addon/-private/index.js
+++ b/addon/-private/index.js
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ export { getOwner, modelHasAttributeOrRelationshipNamedType } from './utils';
 export { default as coerceId } from './system/coerce-id';
 export { default as parseResponseHeaders } from './utils/parse-response-headers';
 
-// should be private ?
-export { default as global } from './global';
 export { default as isEnabled } from './features';
 // `ember-data-model-fragments` relies on `RootState` and `InternalModel`
 export { default as RootState } from './system/model/states';
diff --git a/addon/index.js b/addon/index.js
index 397f90fb601..012352ad391 100644
--- a/addon/index.js
+++ b/addon/index.js
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import EmberError from '@ember/error';
 import Ember from "ember";
-import { deprecate } from '@ember/debug';
 
 /**
   Ember Data
@@ -22,7 +21,6 @@ import {
   BuildURLMixin,
   belongsTo,
   hasMany,
-  global,
   Errors,
   RootState,
   Model,
@@ -145,18 +143,4 @@ Object.defineProperty(DS, 'normalizeModelName', {
   value: normalizeModelName
 });
 
-Object.defineProperty(global, 'DS', {
-  configurable: true,
-  get() {
-    deprecate(
-      'Using the global version of DS is deprecated. Please either import ' +
-        'the specific modules needed or `import DS from \'ember-data\';`.',
-      false,
-      { id: 'ember-data.global-ds', until: '3.0.0' }
-    );
-
-    return DS;
-  }
-});
-
 export default DS;