GitHub Action - AWS CLI - aws-cli

Question

Recently the following GitHub Action has been deprecated with a deletion date already established at end of month (2019-12-31). The issue is, there is no "official" alternative yet (should be here). My questions are:
Does someone know if the "official" action will be released before 2019-12-31?
Is there an alternative?

Answer 1

aws-cli package is available in GitHub-hosted virtual environments. (aws-cli/1.16.266 Python/2.7.12 Linux/4.15.0-1057-azure botocore/1.13.2)
Make sure to set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY in environment variables. You can use Github secrets to store these credentials securely.
- name: Upload to S3
run: |
aws s3 sync ./build s3://test-bucket
env:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: 'ap-south-1'

Answer 2

From GitHub documentation the aws-cli is already available directly on the host image.
It would be nice if this information were available on the deprecation notice
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Answer 3

The AWS CLI will come preinstalled on GitHub Actions environments. More information can be found in the actions/virtual-environments repository. In my case I needed the latest possible version of the CLI. I followed the AWS CLI Install documentation and added the following step to a workflow running on ubuntu/latest:
- name: Install AWS CLI v2
run: |
curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o /tmp/awscliv2.zip
unzip -q /tmp/awscliv2.zip -d /tmp
rm /tmp/awscliv2.zip
sudo /tmp/aws/install --update
rm -rf /tmp/aws/

Answer 4

An alternative to default awscli, or using third party actions is to configure python and install the awscli at the time of the build:
name: Sync to S3 bucket
on: [push]
jobs:
sync:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
- uses: actions/setup-python#v2
with:
python-version: '3.7'
- name: Install dependencies
run: |
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install awscli
- run: aws s3 sync builddir s3://foobar --region eu-west-1 --cache-control max-age=0 --acl public-read --delete
env:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
"Github Actions > Building and testing Python" docs on Github https://docs.github.com/en/actions/guides/building-and-testing-python

Answer 5

The repo was updated yesterday with the following new deprecation notice:
This action has been deprecated in favor of
https://github.com/aws-actions. This repo has been archived and will
be made private on 12/31/2019