ECS Fargate Scheduled Task not running

Question

I'm trying to setup a scheduled task with ECS Fargate but I cannot figure out why it is not running. I can confirm the task works correctly using RunTask but when I try to trigger it on a schedule all I get is a bunch of 'FailedInvocations' with no explanation.

I do know though that the rule is being triggered so this is a good sign. See the screenshot below:

But everytime it is triggered there is just a 'FailedInvocation'. Here's the scheduling rule:

And the default permissions on the ecsEventRole with just ecs:runTask:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "ecs:RunTask"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

My hunch says that this ecsEventsRole doesn't have enough permissions. Should I try to give it the ones that ecsTaskExecutionRole has?

Thanks

EDIT: This is now supported in us-east-1 region. See comments.

Answer 1

I ran into a similar issue where regular ECS Scheduled Tasks were not running.

I finally resolved it by adding an additional policy to ecsEventsRole which allows CloudWatch Events to pass IAM roles to ECS Tasks:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:ListInstanceProfiles",
                "iam:ListRoles",
                "iam:PassRole"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}