# Amazon ECS Service Steps fail with 'Container.image contains invalid cha...

- Provider: [Octopus Deploy](https://down.guide/octopus)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 2d 22h
- started 2026-05-15 12:36 UTC
- Octopus Cloud
- id: DWN-26684e59de
- Official page: https://stspg.io/xp9qxttg4ym1

## Updates from Octopus Deploy
### 2026-05-15 12:36 UTC: identified
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

### 2026-05-18 10:49 UTC: resolved
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.

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