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Service Issue - Linode Kubernetes Engine Enterprise (LKE-E)- IAD2 (Washington)

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 recurrence moving forward, we will implement dedicated alerting for entitlement and capacity issues, directly linked to response runbooks for rapid remediation. Additionally, we are building a centralized capacity overview dashboard to proactively track regional headroom. This summary provides an overview

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State

Resolved

Started

79 d ago

2026-08-13 21:13 UTC

Lasted

2 h 12 min

until 2026-08-13 23:24 UTC

Worst impact

Degraded

Timeline

4 updates
21:1321:4622:1922:5223:24
DegradedUpdate postedTimes in UTC

Investigating

1 h 49 min 83%

Monitoring

23 min 17%

Updates

Times in UTC

As posted by Akamai Cloud (Linode)

Postmortem2026-08-18 20:32 UTC

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 recurrence moving forward, we will implement dedicated alerting for entitlement and capacity issues, directly linked to response runbooks for rapid remediation. Additionally, we are building a centralized capacity overview dashboard to proactively track regional headroom. This summary provides an overview

Resolved2026-08-13 23:24 UTC

This incident has been resolved.

Monitoring2026-08-13 23:02 UTC

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

Investigating2026-08-13 21:13 UTC

Our team is investigating an issue affecting creation of Linode Kubernetes Engine Enterprise (LKE-E) clusters in the IAD2 - Washington data center. This is a continuation of the issue reported earlier. We will share additional updates as we have more information.

Affected components

1
US-IAD (Washington) Linode Kubernetes Engine

Akamai Cloud (Linode) in the last 90 days

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Incidents in 90 days

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Days with an incident

89

Median duration

6 h 29 min

This incident

66% shorter than the median

How long each incident lasted, on the day it started. The outlined bar is this incident.

15 days
median 6 h 29 min
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