diff --git a/pkgs/tools/virtualization/awless/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/virtualization/awless/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 97b3fbd1b7a6..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/virtualization/awless/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, lib, buildGoPackage, fetchFromGitHub }:
-
-buildGoPackage rec {
-  pname = "awless";
-  version = "0.1.11";
-
-  goPackagePath = "github.com/wallix/awless";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner  = "wallix";
-    repo   = "awless";
-    rev    = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "187i21yrm10r3f5naj3jl0rmydr5dkhmdhxs90hhf8hjp59a89kg";
-  };
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = "https://github.com/wallix/awless/";
-    description = "A Mighty CLI for AWS";
-    platforms = with platforms; linux ++ darwin;
-    license = licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ pradeepchhetri swdunlop ];
-    # asm: InitTextSym double init for "".Syscall
-    # panic: invalid use of LSym - NewFuncInfo with Extra of type *obj.FuncInfo
-    broken = (stdenv.isLinux && stdenv.isAarch64);
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 174360e648e4..a6b0008f8efb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   avldrums-lv2 = x42-avldrums; # Added 2020-03-29
   avxsynth = throw "avxsynth was removed because it was broken"; # Added 2021-05-18
   awesome-4-0 = awesome; # Added 2022-05-05
+  awless = throw "awless has been dropped due to the lack of maintenance from upstream since 2018"; # Added 2022-05-30
   aws-okta = throw "aws-okta is on indefinite hiatus. See https://github.com/segmentio/aws-okta/issues/278"; # Added 2022-04-05;
   axoloti = throw "axoloti has been removed: abandoned by upstream"; # Added 2022-05-13
   azure-vhd-utils = throw "azure-vhd-utils has been dropped due to the lack of maintenance from upstream since 2018"; # Added 2022-06-03
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8290a19941c7..3794e6c3bde7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1933,8 +1933,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   azure-storage-azcopy = callPackage ../development/tools/azcopy { };
 
-  awless = callPackage ../tools/virtualization/awless { };
-
   bashblog = callPackage ../tools/text/bashblog { };
 
   berglas = callPackage ../tools/admin/berglas { };