# Amazon ECS stopped tasks error messages
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The following are the possible error messages you may receive when your task stops unexpectedly.

To check your stopped tasks for an error message using the AWS Management Console, see [Viewing Amazon ECS stopped task errors](stopped-task-errors.md).

**Tip**  
You can use the [Amazon ECS MCP server](ecs-mcp-introduction.md) with AI assistants to analyze task failures and container logs using natural language.

Stopped task error codes have a category associated with them, for example "ResourceInitializationError". To get more information about each category, see the following:


| Category | Learn more | 
| --- | --- | 
| TaskFailedToStart |  [Troubleshooting Amazon ECS TaskFailedToStart errors](failed-to-start-error.md)  | 
| ResourceInitializationError |  [Troubleshooting Amazon ECS ResourceInitializationError errors](resource-initialization-error.md)  | 
| ResourceNotFoundException |  [Troubleshooting Amazon ECS ResourceNotFoundException errors](resource-not-found-error.md) | 
| SpotInterruptionError |  [Troubleshooting Amazon ECS SpotInterruption errors](spot-interruption-errors.md)  | 
| InternalError |  [Troubleshooting Amazon ECS InternalError errors](internal-error.md)  | 
| OutOfMemoryError |  [Troubleshooting Amazon ECS OutOfMemoryError errors](out-of-memory.md)  | 
| ContainerRuntimeError |  [Troubleshooting Amazon ECS ContainerRuntimeError errors](container-runtime-error.md)  | 
| ContainerRuntimeTimeoutError |  [Troubleshooting Amazon ECS ContainerRuntimeTimeoutError errors](container-runtime-timeout-error.md)  | 
| CannotStartContainerError |  [Troubleshooting Amazon ECS CannotStartContainerError errors](cannot-start-container.md)  | 
| CannotStopContainerError |  [Troubleshooting Amazon ECS CannotStopContainerError errors](cannot-stop-container.md)  | 
| CannotInspectContainerError |  [Troubleshooting Amazon ECS CannotInspectContainerError errors](cannot-inspect-container.md)  | 
| CannotCreateVolumeError |  [Troubleshooting Amazon ECS CannotCreateVolumeError errors](cannot-create-volume.md)  | 
| CannotPullContainer |  [CannotPullContainer task errors in Amazon ECS](task_cannot_pull_image.md)  |