AWS - CloudFormation "Waiting for association to be applied."

Question

I am working on rendering optimization for our project, following this tutorial: https://ec2spotworkshops.com/rendering-with-batch/start/on-your-own.html. However, it is outdated, and I am struggling to make it work. I had to update the stack.yaml by adding an ImageId to get it started, but now it always times out on "Waiting for association to be applied." Has anyone ever seen this issue? I tried searching the web and ChatGPT but couldn't solve it, so I am trying to ask here. Any help appreciated.

P.S. There is nothing new in the CloudWatch logs

Answer 1

Thanks @defaultUsernameN for suggesting to use System Manager. After setting it up I found out in the logs (which are much more helpful than CloudWatch) that the stack.yaml used wrong command for Centos based OS. After replacing resize2fs for xfs_growfs it finished without any issues.