Outage in Octopus Deploy
Amazon ECS Service Steps fail with 'Container.image contains invalid characters' if using a container definition image package ID with a forward slash in it
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Summary AI Generated
Amazon ECS Service Steps in Octopus Deploy failed with 'Container.image contains invalid characters' errors when using container definition image package IDs containing forward slashes. The issue affected Octopus Cloud customers for 70.3 hours, preventing successful ECS deployments. A fix was deployed and rolled out to Octopus Cloud instances, with workarounds available through a GitHub issue during the incident.
We have identified the issue and are working on a fix. If you are experiencing this please see the Github issue below for workarounds - https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/10026
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RESOLVED
7 days ago - at 05/18/2026 10:49AM
We have pushed out a fix for this issue and it should be rolling out to Octopus Cloud customers over the next few days.
Please contact support@octopus.com if you are seeing this issue and we can arrange to get your instance upgraded.
IDENTIFIED
10 days ago - at 05/15/2026 12:36PM
We have identified the issue and are working on a fix. If you are experiencing this please see the Github issue below for workarounds - https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/Issues/issues/10026
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