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CannotInspectContainerError: Could not transition to inspecting; timed out after waiting 30s

Feb 06, 2023

I saw this message with nearly every instantiation of an ECS task: CannotInspectContainerError: Could not transition to inspecting; timed out after waiting 30s The tasks write 4-5 GB of data to a bind-mounted directory on...

I saw this message with nearly every instantiation of an ECS task: CannotInspectContainerError: Could not transition to inspecting; timed out after waiting 30s The tasks write 4-5 GB of data to a bind-mounted directory on the EC2 host, which was using a GP3 volume type. The problem went away after changing the volume type to GP2.