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Quick question: What happens when the ECS Service for an Agent does a restart? Assume that there are flow runs executing during this restart and there is only one agent and work queue

Will the deployments continue running or would they "wait" until the agent comes back online?

In my experience the deployments (flow runs) keep running, and when the agent is back up again it is able to poll and determine the state of those flow runs. I'm assuming that the state is persisted in the prefect api somewhere so the agent is very much ephemeral.

Thanks <@U024LD633LK>!

I am glad that’s the case. 