What does "Family contains invalid characters." mean?

While defining an ECS task, I'm getting the above error. It appears at the top of the "Configure task and container definitions" form with no help or hint as to what field it's referring to. There's nothing on the page called "Family".

Topics: Containers
Tags: Amazon Elastic Container Service
Language: English

mslade

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Task definition name https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/userguide/task_definition_parameters.html

andrewl23

answered 5 years ago

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