Isolating notify from the internet - alphagov/notifications-manuals GitHub Wiki

This page is part of an on-going piece of work. Further content will be added over time, for more nuanced methods to isolate Notify from the internet.

Scaling to all tasks to 0

  1. Get a cyber thumb to log into the production account as admin. Pause the start-deploy pipeline in the production Concourse team.

  2. Log into production account as admin gds aws notify-prod-admin -l.

  3. Go to ECS > notify cluster. The next steps are the same for all ECS tasks, but you should start with api-web, admin. All ECS tasks must be scaled to 0.

  4. Click on the service name > Service auto scaling tab > click Suspentd/Unsuspend scaling > tick Suspend all scheduled actions > Save.



  1. In the same tab under Task count click Edit, set the Task count to 0 and 0 under the Minimum and Maximum heading.


  1. (Optional) Step 5 will gracefully deactivate the task. You likely want to immediately stop the task. Go to the Tasks tab, on the Stop drop down, select Stop all > type in the confirmation > click Stop all.

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