Linode (Akamai) outage, 28 July 2026
Service Issue - Host Job Performance Degradation - Several Regions
- Started
- Resolved
- 29 Jul 2026, 12:27 UTC (after 18 h 13 min)
- Impact
- Not stated
- Affected
- US-East (Newark) Block Storage, US-Central (Dallas) Block Storage, US-West (Fremont) Block Storage, US-Southeast (Atlanta) Block Storage, US-IAD (Washington) Block Storage, US-ORD (Chicago) Block Storage, CA-Central (Toronto) Block Storage, EU-West (London) Block Storage, EU-Central (Frankfurt) Block Storage, FR-PAR (Paris) Block Storage, AP-South (Singapore) Block Storage, AP-Northeast-2 (Tokyo 2) Block Storage
Last update from Linode (Akamai)
On 27 July 2026 at 3:30 UTC, Akamai observed an increase in errors when connecting to the Linode hosting database, primarily affecting Block Storage volume attachments. This resulted in host job failures and limited customer impact, with some users experiencing error messages and interrupted workflows. Elevated timeout rates were noted in logs for certain data center locations, coinciding with the incremental rollout of a new feature flag. Initial investigation revealed intermittent packet drops from the database proxy to client hosts during the TLS handshake. The current theory suggests that a DDoS-protection limit related to path MTU packet too big ICMP messages was reached. When the prox...
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