New container functions are failing

highVercelServerless FunctionsAug 20, 2026 17:46Duration: 47m

computedeployment

Capacity IssueDeployment Failure

Summary

This incident has been resolved.

Impact

major

Timeline

Aug 20, 2026 17:46

[identified] We've identified an issue where newly deployed container functions may return 5XX errors. Customers can use a previously working container function deployment as a temporary mitigation. We are working on a fix and will provide additional updates as they become available.

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+37m

Aug 20, 2026 18:23

[monitoring] We have deployed a fix. Newly deployed container functions are working as expected.

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+11m

Aug 20, 2026 18:34

[resolved] This incident has been resolved.

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Lessons Learned

⚠Vercel has experienced 58 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to compute, deployment have occurred 228 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: Capacity Issue, Deployment Failure. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.