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DigitalOcean outage: Major Service Interruption in MKC1

DigitalOcean reported this critical-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 19, 2026, 11:10 UTC. It was resolved after 8h 25m.

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Aug 19, 2026, 11:10 UTC
started
Aug 19, 2026, 19:34 UTC
resolved
8h 25m
duration
Critical
impact

Affected components

  • MKC1
  1. resolvedAug 19, 2026, 19:34 UTC

    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.

  2. monitoringAug 19, 2026, 18:59 UTC

    At this time, the regional control plane is fully healthy. CPU Droplets, Managed databases, Load balancers, Block storage and Spaces are operating normally. Droplet create, resize and other management operations are working. Kubernetes (DOKS) control planes are reachable. Our teams are continuing to work with the facility to restore all equipment. GPU Droplets in MKC1 remain offline or unreachable. DOKS GPU worker nodes may remain NotReady, and GPU-backed inference endpoints in this region may be unavailable. We will monitor the regional control plane for a short time and then resolve this incident. GPU customers will receive personalized updates with more information in lieu of this status page. If you have questions about your affected resources, contact support and reference this incident.

  3. identifiedAug 19, 2026, 15:28 UTC

    Our Engineering team continues to work on the issue affecting the MKC1 region. We are actively working to restore connectivity and bring the impacted nodes back online. We will provide another update as soon as we have more information.

  4. identifiedAug 19, 2026, 12:22 UTC

    We have identified the root cause of the issue in the MKC1 region affecting multiple racks and nodes. Our Engineering team is actively implementing remediation steps to restore connectivity and bring the impacted nodes back online. During this time, customers may continue to experience disruptions to GPU workloads and Serverless Inference. Kubernetes (DOKS) worker nodes may also remain in a NotReady state, and customers may be unable to reach Kubernetes API endpoints or perform cluster-management operations in affected clusters. We will provide another update as soon as we have more information.

  5. investigatingAug 19, 2026, 11:10 UTC

    Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue in the MKC1 region affecting multiple racks and nodes. During this time, customers may experience disruptions to GPU workloads, and Kubernetes (DOKS) worker nodes may enter a NotReady state. Our team is actively working to restore connectivity and bring impacted nodes back online. If you continue to experience issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.

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DigitalOcean outage on Aug 19, 2026: Major Service Interruption in MKC1 · APIStatus.watch