This incident has been resolved.

The upstream provider reported that systems are starting to work as expected. We see recovery across all Playwright versions now.

We implemented an alternative solution for Playwright Native checks running on version 1.50.0 and above. The scheduling delay for these is now decreasing.

We have identified the issue as a provider outage. https://azure.status.microsoft/status

We are seeing an increased scheduling delay for Playwright Native checks. We are currently investigating the issue.