DigitalOcean outage, 19 August 2026

Major Service Interruption in MKC1

Started
Resolved
19 Aug 2026, 19:34 UTC (after 8 h 24 min)
Impact
Critical
Affected
MKC1

Last update from DigitalOcean

Our Engineering team has confirmed the regional control plane is healthy and CPU Droplets, Managed databases, Load balancers, Block storage, Kubernetes (DOKS) and Spaces are operating normally. GPU Droplets continue to be impacted and our teams are working to restore all nodes. We will communicate with GPU Droplet customers separately via Slack and email with more information and regular updates. Thank you for your patience throughout this incident. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.

19 Aug 2026, 19:34 UTC

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