Remove legacy validation

changelog.md

@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 
 ---
 
+## [5.0.7] 2024-04-30
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Remove unnecessary legacy validation, including looking for the AWS CLI during deployment; fixes #1482
+
+---
+
 ## [5.0.6] 2024-04-29
 
 ### Changed

src/cli/index.js

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 let deploy = require('../../')
 let _inventory = require('@architect/inventory')
 let { banner, updater } = require('@architect/utils')
-let validate = require('./validate')
 let _flags = require('./flags')
 let { version } = require('../../package.json')
 let pauser = require('../utils/pause-sandbox')
@@ -29,9 +28,6 @@ async function main (/* opts = {} */) {
   // Ignore Inventory if passed, and re-Inventory with deployStage set
   let inventory = await _inventory({ deployStage, env: true })
 
-  // Validate for expected env and args and check for potential creds issues
-  validate()
-
   // Populate options, read args into `prune`, `verbose`, `production`, `tags`, `name`, etc.
   let options = {
     inventory,