Linode (Akamai) outage, 21 August 2026
Service Issue - US-SEA (Seattle, WA)
- Started
- Resolved
- 21 Aug 2026, 21:59 UTC (after 4 h 35 min)
- Impact
- Not stated
- Affected
- US-SEA (Seattle)
Last update from Linode (Akamai)
On August 21, 2026 starting approximately at 17:23 UTC, customers using the Seattle data center \(US-SEA\) were unable to provision new nodes or complete host jobs, whereas customers outside Seattle were unaffected. The investigation revealed that this was due to a Linux kernel issue that was triggered on a network router due to increased network traffic at this site while a specific BIOS setting was enabled. This caused system instability and affected job processing in the US-SEA region. To mitigate the impact, the Akamai team disabled a problematic setting and rebooted the affected system, restoring service and moving the situation to a monitoring state by 21:59 UTC on August 21, 2026....
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