[Announcement] Deprecating AWS Serverless Application Model on Python3.6

[mndeveci]

As of now, AWS Serverless Application Model can be used as a library within python3.6, python3.7 and python3.8 versions. However, python3.6 has reached its end of life by December 23th, 2021.

What is deprecation schedule?

AWS Serverless Application Model will not work on python3.6 environments by February 28th, 2022.

Will this impact my AWS Lambda functions using python3.6?

No, AWS Lambda functions which is using python3.6 as runtime will not be affected by this change. For more information about supported runtimes, please check https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/runtime-support-policy.html

Am I impacted by this deprecation?

Following use cases will be impacted by this change;

• If you are using python3.6 and installing AWS Serverless Application Model through pip install
• If you are using aws-sam-translator as a library and you are building your application with python3.6

[jfuss]

Was dropped in https://pypi.org/project/aws-sam-translator/1.43.0/

Closing

[PatMyron]

Should stay pinned for a couple quarters since over 5% of downloads are still using python 3.6:
https://pypistats.org/packages/aws-sam-translator