diff --git a/.github/actions/api-deploy-ecs/action.yml b/.github/actions/api-deploy-ecs/action.yml
index 0f9335d1af2e..07e5a2a924af 100644
--- a/.github/actions/api-deploy-ecs/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/api-deploy-ecs/action.yml
@@ -94,18 +94,20 @@ runs:
       shell: bash
 
     - name: Deploy Amazon ECS web task definition
+      id: deploy-api-task-def
       uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecs-deploy-task-definition@v2
       with:
         cluster: ${{ inputs.aws_ecs_cluster_name }}
         service: ${{ inputs.aws_ecs_service_name }}
         task-definition: ${{ steps.task-def-api.outputs.task-definition }}
 
-    - name: Deploy Amazon ECS SDK service task definition
-      uses: aws-actions/amazon-ecs-deploy-task-definition@v2
-      with:
-        cluster: ${{ inputs.aws_ecs_cluster_name }}
-        service: ${{ inputs.aws_ecs_sdk_service_name }}
-        task-definition: ${{ steps.task-def-api.outputs.task-definition }}
+    - name: Deploy Amazon ECS SDK service with same task definition
+      run: |
+        aws ecs update-service \
+          --cluster ${{ inputs.aws_ecs_cluster_name }} \
+          --service ${{ inputs.aws_ecs_sdk_service_name }} \
+          --task-definition ${{ steps.deploy-api-task-def.outputs.task-definition-arn }}
+      shell: bash
 
     # The DynamoDB Identity Migrator uses the same task definition as the SQL schema migrator but overrides the container definition
     # with the new django execute target