Techniques for cancel and rollback of update stack requests. At a time after receiving a request to cancel and rollback an update request for a computer system, one or more computer resources within a computer system invoke one or more computer system capabilities at least to cancel computer system operations to update the computer. When the computer system operations to update the computer system are cancelled, one or more computer resources within a computer system invoke one or more computer system capabilities at least to roll back the computer system to a previous good state.