Deployments failing with "Failure during content distribution" — zero correlation with repo content, tested extensively

[Shivahotelsnet]

The blocker: deployments are currently broken, unrelated to any of this.
Since yesterday's last successful deploy, every single push to main has failed at Azure's "content distribution" step — tested exhaustively:

Full Telegram feature added → failed
Symlinks removed (unrelated pre-existing issue) → failed
Everything fully reverted to the last known-good state → failed
A single-line trivial comment change → failed
Pushed from a second computer → failed
Waited 15 min between attempts → failed
Regenerated the deployment token → failed
Service Health shows no incidents

This rules out repo content, dependencies, size, symlinks, timing, and the deployment token as causes. It's a stuck/broken state on Azure's side for this specific resource.

[StevenPearson-scfc]

I'm getting this too, all working fine on Friday, but i come in to this today

Finished Upload. Polling on deployment.
Status: InProgress. Time: 0.2229636(s)
Status: Failed. Time: 15.4511534(s)
Deployment Failed :(
Deployment Failure Reason: Failure during content distribution.

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If you believe this behavior is unexpected, please raise a GitHub issue at https://github.com/azure/static-web-apps/issues/
Exiting

[SPP-Rob]

Same here since 1 Sep 2026 - Standard plan, Central US, build succeeds, fails at ~16s of polling with "Failure during content distribution", retries and reverts fail identically, no repo or config changes. Details in #1805.

[StevenPearson-scfc]

I Fixed mine by removing the follow line from the git workflow, I've a feeling MS changed how it works over the weekend.

skip_app_build: true

[SPP-Rob]

Thanks Steve, this worked for me too !

Fixed: removing skip_app_build: true from the pipeline
Many Thanks for your help.