Linode (Akamai) outage, 13 August 2026
Service Issue - Linode Kubernetes Engine Enterprise (LKE-E)- IAD2 (Washington)
- Started
- Resolved
- 13 Aug 2026, 23:24 UTC (after 2 h 11 min)
- Impact
- Minor
- Affected
- US-IAD (Washington) Linode Kubernetes Engine
Last update from Linode (Akamai)
Between 17:25 UTC and 22:50 UTC on August 13, 2026, Linode Kubernetes Engine Enterprise \(LKE-E\) customers attempting to deploy G7 dedicated Linode instances in our Washington \(IAD2\) data center, received 403 provisioning error messages. Active workloads and running instances were not affected by this issue. Our investigation revealed that while total physical hardware capacity in IAD2 was sufficient, the provisioning request triggered an entitlement check failure due to an initial soft host-allocation threshold. Akamai resolved the issue by increasing the Linode-per-host limit from 5 to 20 in IAD2. Full deployment capabilities were restored and stabilized at 22:50 UTC. To prevent recu...
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