Stuck on UPDATE_ROLLBACK_COMPLETE_CLEANUP_IN_PROGRESS state

Question

how do I completely delete this stack? my stack ID was : arn:aws:cloudformation:ap-northeast-1:234758500005:stack/appsync-qldb-demo-dev/c5b800e0-146b-11ed-b082-0aa7231467b7 it keeps on this state for a while now after I cancel the deployment process manually on AWS CloudFormation console which also stuck on a state when updating the stacks.

thank you.

Answer

Hello,

Generally, a CloudFormation stack gets stuck in the UPDATE_ROLLBACK_COMPLETE_CLEANUP_IN_PROGRESS state when CloudFormation is still in the process of removing old resources, or can't remove those resources due to a dependency issue.

In most cases, CloudFormation wait for resources to delete until it reaches to resource stabilization time before its timeout. Once it will be timed out, stack should move to UPDATE_ROLLBACK_COMPLETE.

You can also refer to [KC article](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cloudformation-stack-cleanup-stuck/) for some more information and resolutions.

Hope above was useful to resolve to the issue.

Stuck on UPDATE_ROLLBACK_COMPLETE_CLEANUP_IN_PROGRESS state

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