Introducing ECS Task Cleaner
If you’ve been running AWS ECS for any length of time, you’ve likely noticed something annoying: task definition revisions accumulate. Every deployment creates a new revision, and AWS never cleans up the old ones. Over years of active development, this adds up. I recently inherited an AWS account that had been running ECS workloads for about 6 years. When I looked at the task definitions, I found over 178,000 revisions spread across various task families. The AWS Console offers no bulk delete option, so cleaning these up manually would mean clicking through each revision one by one. That’s not happening. ...