Reviving a Dead Plugin: How I Bring Back To Life the serverless-s3-sync plugin (opens in new tab)

If you've been using the Serverless Framework to deploy static assets to S3, you've probably used serverless-s3-sync. It was the go-to plugin for syncing local directories to S3 buckets. Simple config, works after sls deploy, done. Then, on January 1, 2026, the original author archived the repository. No more updates, no more security fixes. The most worrying thing - no more security fixes. So I forked it, cleaned it up, and published it as serverless-s3-sync-v2. Original Plugin Had a Problem...