CDK CodePipeline: Default Build Image Out of Support March 2023

[Althum2000]

Describe the feature

The current default build image for CDK pipeline generated CodeBuild projects is 'aws/codebuild/standard:5.0'. AWS has issued notices to say that this image will be unsupported after 30th March 2023 which means slower provisioning times as the image will no longer be cached.

Please can we have the default image updated to version 6.0. without delay so that product teams can redeploy their pipelines without having to make code changes to specify the build image?

Use Case

Slower provisioning times for CodeBuild jobs in CDK generated pipelines will result from NOT making this update before 30th March 2023.

Proposed Solution

Update the default image to 6.0.

Other Information

No response

Acknowledgements

• I may be able to implement this feature request
• This feature might incur a breaking change

CDK version used

2.67.0

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

Ubuntu 20

[pahud]

Thank you for the heads up. Do you have the public link of this announcement for our reference?

[pahud]

And according to this, yes we probably should set the default image to 6.0.

[stefanfreitag]

I have recently seen similar messages for standard:4.0, also with date March 30, 2023. They came in as events to the Event Log in the AWS Health Dashboard. No official announcement from AWS side.

[Althum2000]

Thank you for the heads up. Do you have the public link of this announcement for our reference?

The 'official' notifications at the moment are via the Personal Health Dashboard notifications as per above only we are getting the reports for the use of standard:5.0. We have a number of accounts that will be impacted by the change and it would be preferable to upgrade CDK version and redeploy the pipelines rather than make code changes to specifically use standard:6.0. I am checking with our TAM this morning for an official AWS position in addition to the alerts.

[Althum2000]

Confirmed with TAM this afternoon that the dashboard notifications reflect the reality of the situation and the date is confirmed as 30th March 2023. Given the short term notice for the change, I wonder if the proliferation of CodeBuild projects via CDK was taken into account.

[pahud]

As #24544 was merged. I am closing this issue now. Feel free to re-open if it's still relevant.

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