# Aws-cli pinned to old version in windows elastic ci stack
**URL:** https://forum.buildkite.community/t/aws-cli-pinned-to-old-version-in-windows-elastic-ci-stack/3614
**Category:** Features Requests
**Created:** [March 27, 2024, 6:44am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/aws-cli-pinned-to-old-version-in-windows-elastic-ci-stack/3614 "2024-03-27T06:44:26Z")
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### Author:  [@iainm](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/iainm)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2024, 6:44am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/aws-cli-pinned-to-old-version-in-windows-elastic-ci-stack/3614/1 "2024-03-27T06:44:26Z")
There’s [a note from 2020](https://github.com/buildkite/elastic-ci-stack-for-aws/pull/670#issuecomment-706702069) about the aws-cli version in the windows images for the elastic ci stack being held back until after the v5 release. Are there any plans to bump it now that the elastic ci stack releases are well into v6?
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### Author:  [@paula](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/paula)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2024, 6:51am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/aws-cli-pinned-to-old-version-in-windows-elastic-ci-stack/3614/2 "2024-03-27T06:51:03Z")
Hey @iainm that is a very good question!
I’m looking at the configuration that builds the AMIs and it shows that awscli-2 is included in the current windows image: [elastic-ci-stack-for-aws/packer/linux/scripts/install-utils.sh at main · buildkite/elastic-ci-stack-for-aws · GitHub](https://github.com/buildkite/elastic-ci-stack-for-aws/blob/main/packer/linux/scripts/install-utils.sh#L18)
Are you seeing a different version on your instance?
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### Author:  [@iainm](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/iainm)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2024, 6:52am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/aws-cli-pinned-to-old-version-in-windows-elastic-ci-stack/3614/3 "2024-03-27T06:52:59Z")
That link is for the linux packer! The windows one is [elastic-ci-stack-for-aws/packer/windows/scripts/install-utils.ps1 at main · buildkite/elastic-ci-stack-for-aws · GitHub](https://github.com/buildkite/elastic-ci-stack-for-aws/blob/main/packer/windows/scripts/install-utils.ps1#L18)
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### Author:  [@paula](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/paula)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2024, 7:05am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/aws-cli-pinned-to-old-version-in-windows-elastic-ci-stack/3614/4 "2024-03-27T07:05:09Z")
Oh oops thanks for catching that. I swear I clicked the windows link.
I can see now that it is pinned 👍
In this case, the best bet would be to raise an issue on the repo to get the maintainers visibility on it. Then they’ll be able to give a concrete reason and whether it can now be bumped