I can't deploy Azure container apps environment free tier in West Europe

Question

When trying to create a container apps environment with subnet and private endpoints integration I get this error during the deployment:

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"code": "ManagedEnvironmentProvisioningError",

"message": "Creating a free tier cluster is unavailable at this time in region westeurope. To create a new cluster, we recommend using an alternate region, or create a paid tier cluster. For a list of all the Azure regions, visit https://aka.ms/aks/regions. For more details on this error, visit https://aka.ms/akscapacityheavyusage.\r\nStatus: 400 (Bad Request)\r\nErrorCode: AKSCapacityHeavyUsage\r\n\r\nContent:\r\n{\n "code": "AKSCapacityHeavyUsage",\n "details": null,\n "message": "Creating a free tier cluster is unavailable at this time in region westeurope. To create a new cluster, we recommend using an alternate region, or create a paid tier cluster. For a list of all the Azure regions, visit https://aka.ms/aks/regions. For more details on this error, visit https://aka.ms/akscapacityheavyusage.\",\n "subcode": ""\n }\r\n\r\nHeaders:\r\nCache-Control: no-cache\r\nPragma: no-cache\r\nx-ms-operation-identifier: REDACTED\r\nx-ms-correlation-request-id: REDACTED\r\nx-ms-request-id: 42ac8596-d9aa-4e4c-a565-eee11c62167b\r\nStrict-Transport-Security: REDACTED\r\nx-ms-throttling-version: REDACTED\r\nx-ms-ratelimit-remaining-subscription-writes: REDACTED\r\nx-ms-routing-request-id: REDACTED\r\nX-Content-Type-Options: REDACTED\r\nX-Cache: REDACTED\r\nX-MSEdge-Ref: REDACTED\r\nDate: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:26:55 GMT\r\nContent-Length: 412\r\nContent-Type: application/json\r\nExpires: -1\r\n"

}

Answer 1

Hi @Vasco Bartolomeu,

Thanks for the confirmation. Glad the issue is resolved.

It worked after changing the entire infrastructure logic.

West Europe region is facing Capacity crunch for resources since 21st February, we also had multiple outages and latency in West Europe for compute and app services facing capacity issues which is causing your deployment to fail with capacity issues.

Here's what you can do:

1. Try deploying your Azure Container Apps environment in a different region where the free tier is still available. You can check the list of Azure regions and their availability here.
2. If you prefer to stay in West Europe, consider creating a paid tier cluster, which should work without the availability issues present in the free tier.
3. Sometimes capacity in westeurope frees up after some time. However, there’s no guaranteed timeline.

Check Azure’s documentation for updates on regional availability and capacity constraints. For more details on this specific error, you might want to refer to this page: Azure Capacity Heavy Usage.

Hope this helps!

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