Restart Amazon ECS tasks with AWS Lambda and AWS CloudFormation custom resources
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This article explains how to restart Amazon ECS tasks running under a service using AWS Lambda and AWS CloudFormation custom resources. It allows restarting tasks without rebuilding or redeploying containers, which can be useful when secrets are rotated or updated.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Overview of the solution architecture
- Prerequisites needed
- Step-by-step walkthrough to implement the solution
- Validation steps to confirm the solution works
- Cleanup steps to delete the deployed resources
- Conclusion summarizing the benefits
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