Problem
Every deployment fails at the “Deploying outputs…” step with “We encountered an internal error. Please try again.” The build itself completes successfully — Next.js compiles, TypeScript passes, all 36 pages generate, serverless functions are created.
Expected behavior is that outputs deploy normally after a successful build.
Inspecting failed deployments via the Vercel CLI shows:
readyState: ERROR
errorCode: null
errorMessage: null
output: [ ] (0 artifacts)
The last successful deployment produced 180 output artifacts from the same codebase.
Steps to Reproduce
- Push any commit to
main(or manually redeploy from the dashboard) - Build completes successfully:
Build Completed in /vercel/output [1m] - “Deploying outputs…” hangs for ~20 seconds
- Fails with:
Error: We encountered an internal error. Please try again.
Tried 6+ consecutive deployments including manual redeploys with build cache disabled. All fail identically.
Environment
- Framework:
Next.js 16.1.6(Turbopack,App Router) - Plan: Hobby
- Build region:
iad1(Washington DC) - Build output region:
sfo1 - Last successful deploy: ~07:00 UTC, 1 Mar 2026
- First failure: ~07:00 UTC, 2 Mar 2026
This is not related to the active Dubai (dxb1) incident on the status page — my deployments use iad1/sfo1. Vercel’s AI support confirmed this is a platform-side issue based on the null error codes and zero output artifacts pattern, and recommended a support case. Is anyone else seeing deployment failures on iad1/sfo1 today?