# Stuck in UPDATE\_ROLLBACK\_FAILED state and can't deploy

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/stuck-in-update-rollback-failed-state-and-cant-deploy/19423>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Tags:** aws, lambda, cloudformation\
**Created:** [August 22, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/stuck-in-update-rollback-failed-state-and-cant-deploy/19423 "2023-08-22T15:05:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![borkanee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f07891/32.png) [@borkanee](https://forum.serverless.com/u/borkanee)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/stuck-in-update-rollback-failed-state-and-cant-deploy/19423/1 "2023-08-22T15:05:04Z")

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Tried to deploy an update with runtime being set to 12. After changing to 18 I’m not able to deploy due to the cloudformation stack being stuck in UPDATE\_ROLLBACK\_FAILED. How can I solve this? Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![buggy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/buggy/32/177_2.png) [@buggy](https://forum.serverless.com/u/buggy)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/stuck-in-update-rollback-failed-state-and-cant-deploy/19423/2 "2023-08-24T09:49:47Z")

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Do you know why the rollback failed?

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**Author:** ![jb\_devs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@jb\_devs](https://forum.serverless.com/u/jb_devs)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/stuck-in-update-rollback-failed-state-and-cant-deploy/19423/3 "2023-08-24T13:02:04Z")

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You can go into your CloudFormation console and manually select to continue the rollback.

CloudFormation =\> select the stack in question =\> open the Stack actions menu in the top =\> Continue update rollback

There have been times I’ve needed to open the Advanced menu to skip some “problem” functions, so keep that in mind. As for why this happens? I’d love to know!

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**Author:** ![borkanee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f07891/32.png) [@borkanee](https://forum.serverless.com/u/borkanee)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/stuck-in-update-rollback-failed-state-and-cant-deploy/19423/4 "2023-08-31T13:53:52Z")

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Thank you! That seemed to solve it, needed to skip the resource as well.