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AWS Copilot CLI will reach end-of-support on June 12, 2026. After this date, the tool will no longer receive updates, security patches, or technical support. We recommend migrating to alternative solutions as soon as possible to ensure continued support and access to the latest features. For more information, refer to our blogpost.

• Documentation: https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/

The AWS Copilot CLI is a tool for developers to build, release and operate production-ready containerized applications on AWS App Runner or Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate.

Use Copilot to:

• Deploy production-ready, scalable services on AWS from a Dockerfile in one command.
• Add databases or inject secrets to your services.
• Grow from one microservice to a collection of related microservices in an application.
• Set up test and production environments, across regions and accounts.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines to release your services to your environments.
• Monitor and debug your services from your terminal.

To install with homebrew:

$ brew install aws/tap/copilot-cli

To install manually, we're distributing binaries from our GitHub releases:

Make sure you have the AWS command line tool installed and have already run aws configure before you start.

To get a sample app up and running in one command, run the following:

$ git clone git@github.com:aws-samples/aws-copilot-sample-service.git demo-app
$ cd demo-app
$ copilot init --app demo                \
  --name api                             \
  --type 'Load Balanced Web Service'     \
  --dockerfile './Dockerfile'            \
  --deploy

This will create a VPC, Application Load Balancer, an Amazon ECS Service with the sample app running on AWS Fargate. This process will take around 8 minutes to complete - at which point you'll get a URL for your sample app running! 🚀

Want to learn more about what's happening? Check out our documentation https://aws.github.io/copilot-cli/ for a getting started guide, learning about Copilot concepts, and a breakdown of our commands.

Have any feedback at all? 🙏 Drop us an issue or join us on gitter.

We're happy to hear feedback or answer questions, so reach out, anytime!

If you think you’ve found a potential security issue, please do not post it in the Issues. Instead, please follow the instructions here or email AWS security directly at aws-security@amazon.com.

This library is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.