AWS ECS Service not showing under cluster

Question

I've been trying to teach myself DevOps, and I created a cluster and then a Service under the cluster that should pull a container from ECR and expose it to a load balancer with a Task (I think--the docs use a lot of words that don't provide a whole lot of clarity). But anyway, the service has disappeared from the services list for the cluster. I tried creating the service again with the same name in Management Console (so I don't have to update my GitHub action), and I get an error because the service already exists. How can I get hold of the service in Management Console to try to fix it or delete it or whatever?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I eventually was able to figure out what was going on here, and helpfully this can help someone.

There's an option that's hidden by default that causes your service to roll back if something goes wrong during creation. But even though in CloudFormation, it says it's deleted, it's still kind of hanging out.

For this reason, I've started just clicking "View in CloudFormation" when launching a new service--this lets you watch what's going on and you can find zombie services and delete them from within the stack.