code: def _get_task_statuses(task_ids, cluster):
      
      response = client.describe_tasks(tasks=task_ids, cluster=cluster)
  
      # Error checking
      if response['failures'] != []:
          raise Exception('There were some failures:\n{0}'.format(
              response['failures']))
      status_code = response['ResponseMetadata']['HTTPStatusCode']
      if status_code != 200:
          msg = 'Task status request received status code {0}:\n{1}'
          raise Exception(msg.format(status_code, response))
  
      return [t['lastStatus'] for t in response['tasks']]
docs: Retrieve task statuses from ECS API
  
      Returns list of {RUNNING|PENDING|STOPPED} for each id in task_ids