Is Copilot still under active development?

[wub]

The last non-CVE release was almost 1 year ago. Unanswered issues are piling up. Contributors haven't responded to multiple requests for comment:

1. On a PR from last year where the "AWS Copilot CLI is in maintenance mode" banner was removed chore: Update README.md #5975 (comment)
2. On an issue open since last year Is copilot-cli still maintained? #5987
3. "We are not actively developing any new features for Copilot but we still do maintenance work" - does this still apply? Or does the reverted PR chore: Update README.md #5975 supersede this? What's the future of AWS Copilot? #5925

I understand that you've technically removed the maintenance mode warning, but we need to know if we should start thinking about another system.

To be clear, this is because we get a lot of value from Copilot, and we appreciate the work you've put into it.

@bkaws @Madrigal Is AWS Copilot in maintenance mode? Or is there a roadmap? Thank you.

[mbevc1]

Was just about to post something similar and there was no clear messaging. Would be a shame not to have a tool like this, which is a good abstraction on top of ECS!

[rubiconjosh]

I have been advising clients for a while now not to adopt Copilot for new projects.

[wub]

@lucix-aws @wty-Bryant @dannyrandall @iamhopaul123 @Lou1415926

[bkaws]

Hello, as you've pointed out in bullet 3, that statement from 8/30/2024 summarizes the state of the tool: we are not doing active development, but will fix any high severity security vulnerabilities.

[webmonch]

@bkaws how long do you plan on doing it?

[vladionescu]

The fact that this is in maintenance mode and no longer actively supported should be visible at the top of the README. Can we have an update to that effect?

[rubiconjosh]

The fact that this is in maintenance mode and no longer actively supported should be visible at the top of the README. Can we have an update to that effect?

They sort of did this, for less than a day back in November then immediately reverted the change. I have no idea why.

949daed

The blog post referenced in the commit was also removed.

[mbevc1]

Would be useful to get more clarity on this 😉

[shiv-tp]

@rubiconjosh what deployment framework/platform are you pointing them towards?

[nicka-g2]

Sigh, this is so frustrating!

[rubiconjosh]

@rubiconjosh what deployment framework/platform are you pointing them towards?

Varies, I would say SST has been working out well for me.

[thomaswitt]

Copilot is a great tool, and I can't understand why AWS would cease development for it. It's even linked all over the console.

[jgarbers]

Super disappointed to learn about this having just spent the past several weeks migrating away from CDK toward Copilot, which has been providing a much more pleasant experience. Although it works fine now, the chances of it being viable two years from now in the fast-moving AWS environment are pretty low.

Please consider adding a warning message to the CLI and its documentation pages. If the tool had said "Copilot is no longer being updated" when I was getting started, I'd have shrugged and found an alternative. Instead I've got hours of sunk cost.

[h5aaimtron]

We've been switching all our stuff to aws cdk at this point. There are some example repos under my profile. Don't know if that helps people, but it has been a valid solution for us.