diff --git a/debian/autobake-deb.sh b/debian/autobake-deb.sh
index 354a2706e1e..b5c3dc84f06 100755
--- a/debian/autobake-deb.sh
+++ b/debian/autobake-deb.sh
@@ -77,9 +77,6 @@ then
   sed '/Package: mariadb-plugin-rocksdb/,/^$/d' -i debian/control
 fi
 
-# Always remove AWS plugin, see -DNOT_FOR_DISTRIBUTION in CMakeLists.txt
-sed '/Package: mariadb-plugin-aws-key-management-10.2/,/^$/d' -i debian/control
-
 # If libpcre2-dev is not available (before Debian Stretch and Ubuntu Xenial)
 # attempt to build using older libpcre3-dev (SIC!)
 if ! apt-cache madison libpcre2-dev | grep --quiet 'libpcre2-dev'
diff --git a/debian/mariadb-plugin-aws-key-management.install b/debian/mariadb-plugin-aws-key-management.install
deleted file mode 100644
index 199d4c87950..00000000000
--- a/debian/mariadb-plugin-aws-key-management.install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-debian/additions/enable_encryption.preset etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d
-etc/mysql/conf.d/aws_key_management.cnf etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d
-usr/lib/mysql/plugin/aws_key_management.so