DigitalOcean outage, 27 October 2026
Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations
- Started
- Status
- Ongoing: Investigating
- Impact
- Major
- Affected
- Global
Is this still happening?
Yes. DigitalOcean still lists it as investigating; last update 27 Oct 2026, 22:14 UTC.
Right now: DigitalOcean reports a partial outage. (as of 27 Oct, 23:51 UTC) Live DigitalOcean status
Last update from DigitalOcean
Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue affecting Managed Kubernetes cluster operations. During this time, Customers may experience delays or failures when attempting to create, delete, scale, or upgrade clusters, as well as with other management tasks. Existing workloads running on Managed Kubernetes are not affected and will continue to operate normally. Our Engineering team is actively investigating and treating this with the highest priority. We will provide another update as soon as more information becomes available.
Read the full incident on the official DigitalOcean status page
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