diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index fd63b89..ef121b1 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/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
diff --git a/src/cli/index.js b/src/cli/index.js
index 760acaa..30ae914 100755
--- a/src/cli/index.js
+++ b/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,
diff --git a/src/cli/validate.js b/src/cli/validate.js
deleted file mode 100644
index da71e2d..0000000
--- a/src/cli/validate.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-let { updater } = require('@architect/utils')
-let { delimiter, join } = require('path')
-let { existsSync } = require('fs')
-
-let messages = {
-  missing_aws_cli: 'missing aws from PATH, please install the aws-cli',
-  missing_creds: 'missing or invalid AWS credentials or credentials file',
-}
-
-/**
- * Deploy CLI environment validator
- */
-module.exports = function validate () {
-  try {
-    if (process.env.ARC_AWS_CREDS === 'missing') {
-      throw Error('missing_creds')
-    }
-    if (!binExists('aws')) {
-      throw ReferenceError('missing_aws_cli')
-    }
-  }
-  catch (e) {
-    let update = updater('Deploy')
-    update.error(`Failed to deploy, ${messages[e.message]}`)
-    process.exit(1)
-  }
-}
-
-function binExists (bin) {
-  function getPaths (bin) {
-    let envPath = (process.env.PATH || '')
-    let envExt = (process.env.PATHEXT || '')
-    return envPath.replace(/["]+/g, '').split(delimiter).map(function (chunk) {
-      return envExt.split(delimiter).map(function (ext) {
-        return join(chunk, bin + ext)
-      })
-    }).reduce(function (a, b) {
-      return a.concat(b)
-    })
-  }
-  return getPaths(bin).some(existsSync)
-}