DigitalOcean outage: Serverless Inference - Intermittent Rate Limiting Affecting Some Customers Using Anthropic Models

Affected components

• Agent Runtime

1. resolvedApr 27, 2026, 11:37 UTC

   The issue is resolved, and service is operating normally.

2. monitoringApr 27, 2026, 11:07 UTC

   We identified the cause of intermittent HTTP 429 responses affecting some customers using Anthropic models on DigitalOcean Serverless Inference and applied a mitigation. Service has recovered, and we are monitoring stability.

3. investigatingApr 27, 2026, 10:38 UTC

   We are investigating an issue affecting some customers using DigitalOcean Serverless Inference with Anthropic models. Over the last two hours, impacted customers may have experienced intermittent request failures, including HTTP 429 responses, on some Anthropic model requests. Our engineering team is actively investigating the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience and will share another update as soon as more information is available.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in DigitalOcean's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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