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🟠 Dallas and Ashburn data centers are tapped out—new machines refuse to materialize and Depot builders are playing hide-and-seek. Your deploys get to experience the joy of infinite waiting, which sounds meditative until you realize it's actually a capacity hostage situation. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Feb 27, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Capacity issues in iad and dfw

// Status page says

Feb 27 , 15:34 UTC Identified - These regions (Dallas, TX dfw and Ashburn, VA iad) are currently low on capacity. New machine creates in these regions might fail temporarily, and Depot builders may be unavailable, causing deploys to hang in "Waiting for Depot builder". If you are having issues with Depot builders, consider moving them to a different non-iad, non-dfw region in your fly.io dashboard's "Settings" page under "App buil

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.flyio.net/incidents/nd8py5j6t30z

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