Can I force delete an AWS CloudFormation stack that is In Progress of Rollback

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Justin picture Justin · Jan 28, 2017 · Viewed 47.6k times · Source

An AWS CloudFormation rollback (e.g., UPDATE_ROLLBACK_IN_PROGRESS) has been in progress forever, like over an hour and a half. I want to delete the stack altogether or force stop any activity. Is this possible?

Thanks!

Answer

Simon Buchan picture Simon Buchan · Jan 30, 2018

Another common cause of blocked stack updates/rollbacks is errors in ECS::Service resource updates: it doesn't look like that is currently detected (in some cases?). Cloudformation is waiting for the service event for the service reaching a steady state, so simply updating the service to something that works (e.g. desired tasks to 0) will unblock it. Try to get the state back to what Cloudformation expects before sending more updates to avoid problems, though.

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