Updating PackageType is not supported error

Package Type

CloudFormation does not support updating a Lambda Function Package Type format. If you see this error Updating PackageType is not supported.

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Here's the nested stack error details: Embedded stack arn:aws:cloudformation:us-west-2:536766270177:stack/demo-dev-Controller-1WSPSJ0ROO9XK/fb4bc090-f9fa-11ee-ad50-06de9d982e51 was not successfully updated. Currently in UPDATE_ROLLBACK_IN_PROGRESS with reason: The following resource(s) failed to update: [LambdaFunction].
Stack arn:aws:cloudformation:us-west-2:536766270177:stack/demo-dev-Controller-1WSPSJ0ROO9XK/fb4bc090-f9fa-11ee-ad50-06de9d982e51 Status: UPDATE_ROLLBACK_COMPLETE
Stack events:
06:11:57PM UPDATE_IN_PROGRESS AWS::CloudFormation::Stack demo-dev-Controller-1WSPSJ0ROO9XK User Initiated
06:11:59PM UPDATE_IN_PROGRESS AWS::Lambda::Function LambdaFunction
06:12:00PM UPDATE_FAILED AWS::Lambda::Function LambdaFunction Resource handler returned message: "Invalid request provided: Updating PackageType is not supported" (RequestToken: 5cb957bc-31aa-6484-db0a-7bb3351ee4bd, HandlerErrorCode: InvalidRequest)
06:12:00PM UPDATE_ROLLBACK_IN_PROGRESS AWS::CloudFormation::Stack demo-dev-Controller-1WSPSJ0ROO9XK The following resource(s) failed to update: [LambdaFunction].
06:12:41PM UPDATE_COMPLETE AWS::Lambda::Function LambdaFunction
06:12:41PM UPDATE_ROLLBACK_COMPLETE_CLEANUP_IN_PROGRESS AWS::CloudFormation::Stack demo-dev-Controller-1WSPSJ0ROO9XK
06:12:46PM UPDATE_ROLLBACK_COMPLETE AWS::CloudFormation::Stack demo-dev-Controller-1WSPSJ0ROO9XK
Here's also the AWS Console link to the failed nested stack:

Solution

You must delete the stack and redeploy.

This is one of the reasons the default package type for Jets is image. This is just in case you need the image format later, you won’t have to delete and deploy again.

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