How do you delete an AWS ECS Task Definition?

wjimenez5271 picture wjimenez5271 · Jan 27, 2016 · Viewed 12.9k times · Source

Once you've created a task definition in Amazon's EC2 Container Service, how do you delete or remove it?

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gboda picture gboda · Jan 27, 2016

It's a known issue. Once you de-register a Task Definition it goes into INACTIVE state and clutters up the ECS Console.