How to Debug "Resource Creation Timed out Waiting for Completion" in Aws Cloudformation?
I'm Brand New to Aws and I Have a Script Which I Believe Should Create an Ecs Cluster. When I Run the Script, My Stack Hangs in the Create_In_Progress State...
I'm brand new to AWS and I have a script which I believe should create an ECS cluster.
When I run the script, my stack hangs in the CREATE_IN_PROGRESS state for over an hour. Eventually, it fails and goes into ROLLBACK_COMPLETE.
When I'm in Cloudformation in the AWS console, I can go to "Events" and see that two Services which I'm trying to create are causing stack creation to fail. However, the only error message is Resource creation timed out waiting for completion.
I've tried the steps outlined here, namely, including going in to CloudTrail, but I'm not really sure what to look for and haven't found anything to help me resolve the issue. Again, I'm an AWS noob.
What are some steps I can take to get a more detailed error message? How do I go about debugging in AWS?
Any help is appreciated, let me know if I need to provide more info.
1 Answer
I was running into the same situation with CDK where my ECS would fail after 3 hours of CREATE_IN_PROGRESS. A big issue with debugging and troubleshooting is when ROLLBACK happened it wipes your ECS cluster and the event history. However, if you go to the ECS console's Task list you should see a task and I bet you it's stuck in a PENDING state. There are a lot of reasons for this. When the Task fails to reach the desired state it'll add the reason it failed to the Service's Events. To get there:
On this page there's an Events tab
Select a Task and it show that it STOPPED. In my case below it looks like it couldn't find the ECS container template image
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