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🟠 LetsEncrypt decided to take an unscheduled sabbatical, torching Fly's certificate creation. Your existing certs and preview domains are chilling just fine, but good luck adding new ones until the certificate overlords get their act together. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ May 08, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Certificate Issuance failing due to LetsEncrypt Outage

// Status page says

May 8 , 20:25 UTC Identified - Due to a service outage at LetsEncrypt, creating new certificates with `fly certs add` is failing. Existing certificates and `*.fly.dev` preview certificates are not impacted. For additional details please see LetsEncrypt's statuspage https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/69fe2d6698ca07050eb4b1b3

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

https://status.flyio.net/incidents/3rw2stnlb0ys

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