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copilot-cli
AWS Copilot CLI will reach end-of-support on June 12, 2026.
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AWS Copilot CLI will reach end-of-support on June 12, 2026.
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We are spending about 60% less. Workload has actually lessened since AWS is so much more stable. Getting to a similar DX as Heroku was quite the lift, but once it's done, it's…
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9 sourcesAZazebazenestor·Sep 1, 2023Submission
Support of Lambda web adapter on AWS Copilot
2 points · Open discussionWe are spending about 60% less. Workload has actually lessened since AWS is so much more stable. Getting to a similar DX as Heroku was quite the lift, but once it's done, it's done. These days we generally only have outages when we screw something up ourselves. I recommend https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli for starting out on ECS.
In Heroku Status – Dashboard/API Offline> I wish Fargate was easier to use and had a scale to 0 feature.
Fargate can be scaled to zero. Also, have you tried the CLI? [0]
[0]: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli
In Behind the scenes, AWS LambdaThis looks super useful!
For folks who are interested in deploying their containers on AWS without "boilerplate", we also have a tool called AWS Copilot which can help simplify setup and management of all the container infrastructure you need :D https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli
In AWS BoilerplateWe are using Convox v2 too and are happy with it, but I'm hesitant to do the upgrade to introduce the complexity of kubernetes to our devs and if convox the right abstraction on top of kubernetes when there which is already a pile of abstractions in k8s itself (and so many other tools to choose from in the k8s universe).
https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli isn't ready for our use cases, but is more or less convox v2 built by AWS.
In Ask HN: Has anyone migrated off containerized infrastructure?Not yet but we’re tracking resource importing here: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/issues/740
In AWS CopilotCopilot can also help set up HTTPS/ACM Certs/Subdomains:
https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/wiki/Applications#additio...
I love the cloudrun style service too - but one thing I think is cool about running on ECS/Fargate is that once you outgrow the constraints of CloudRun style services - you can drop down to the more granular infrastructure to make tweaks and adjustments. Just my 2c :)
In AWS CopilotNot yet - we’ve started out with Fargate but we have a roadmap item to support EC2 and resource imports:
https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/issues/1094
In AWS CopilotHi!! I’m a developer on AWS Copilot! We’d love your feedback!
Homebrew: brew install aws/tap/copilot-cli
Docs: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/
Feedback & Requests: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli/issues/new
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