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Sep 20, 09:05 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has resolved the issue that was affecting the ability to access and manage the Managed Databases and App Platform in the Cloud Control Panel. Users should now no longer experience slowness, timeouts, or errors when interacting with Managed Databases or App Platform services. All operations should be functioning normally.

If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sep 20, 02:30 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has implemented a fix to resolve the issue that was resulting in the degradation of the Managed Database and App platform deployment in the Cloud Control Panel.

During this time, users should no longer experience slowness issues with Managed Database and App Platform, and any other previously mentioned timeouts and errors.

We will post an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved.

Sep 20, 00:42 UTC
Identified - Our Engineering team has identified an issue affecting the ability to access and manage the Managed databases and App platform in the Cloud Control Panel.

While there is no impact on data-plane availability, Users may experience some issues like UI taking a while to load, request timeouts, some delays in App platform deployment for apps that have databases, and some API errors.

Our Engineering team is already working on this issue for the resolution. We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.

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Barred from many Western markets by U.S.-led restrictions, Huawei is doubling down on developing countries for its cloud and artificial intelligence businesses. The move has put Huawei on a collision...

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As the Léon Thévenin eased into Cape Town port last month, Shuru Arendse was ready to rush home to his family. He had a month off and a laundry list...

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At the end of November, Hamza Hourani’s phone rang. It was a cloudy morning in Damascus, and some Syrians were quietly stocking their cupboards as rebel fighters marched south toward...

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Sep 15, 17:20 UTC
Resolved - From 14:29 to 16:01 UTC, our Engineering team identified an issue with the Droplet Create page in our Cloud Control Panel. During this time, users would have experienced issues with accessing the Droplet Create page at https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new. Our team has fully resolved the issues, and as of 16:01 UTC, all services are operating normally.

We apologize for the inconvenience. If you are still experiencing any problems or have additional questions, then please open a support ticket within your account.

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Sep 12, 19:33 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has confirmed the full resolution of the issue with the upstream provider. Users should now be able to deploy to App Platform and manage their Spaces Buckets as normal.

If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Sep 12, 19:14 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has identified that the ongoing issue with the upstream provider is also impacting DigitalOcean Spaces. They continue to monitor the ongoing issue with the upstream provider impacting DigitalOcean Spaces and App Platform services.

Improvements are being seen with lower error rates and latency for App Platform deployments as well as for fetching Spaces endpoints.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will share further updates in the due course.

Sep 12, 18:54 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is aware of an upstream provider issue that is causing impact to some DigitalOcean services. More details are being gathered.

At this time, users may experience delayed App Platform deployments.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will provide another update as soon as possible.

Sep 15, 12:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Sep 15, 10:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Sep 12, 11:02 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2025-09-15 10:00 UTC
End: 2025-09-15 12:00 UTC

During the above window, our Networking team will be making changes to the core networking infrastructure to improve performance and scalability in the NYC1 region.

Expected impact:

While no service disruption is expected during the scheduled maintenance window, there is a low risk of hardware failure associated with the activity. In such a scenario, customers may experience brief interruptions to network traffic within the affected region. If triggered, our Engineering teams will respond immediately to isolate and mitigate the impact.

If you have any questions related to this issue, please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket

Every government aiming for sovereign artificial intelligence has roughly the same mantra: build their own ChatGPT, leapfrog into AI leadership, and be free of foreign dependence. It’s a compelling narrative,...

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Bashir Ahmad sold his wife’s gold jewelry to buy an electric three-wheeler that would revolutionize his apple business in Kashmir. Until winter arrived and killed it. On a freezing morning,...

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A Vietnamese military-owned company has quietly become one of the most ambitious state-backed technology firms in the world. Viettel, launched by Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defense in 1989 to build...

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Sep 12, 02:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Sep 11, 14:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Sep 9, 15:41 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2025-Sep-11 02:00 PM UTC
End: 2025-Sep-12 02:00 AM UTC

During the above window, our Engineering team will be performing power maintenance in our SFO2 data center cages to ensure infrastructure stability.

Expected Impact:

All devices run on redundant power. We do not expect any customer impact during this maintenance. If the redundant power feed experiences an issue during the course of the maintenance (which is unlikely), customers could see impact to existing resources housed in the affected cages, including Droplets, rDNS, and Object Storage. We will post updates if any unexpected outage occurs.

To help ensure a safe operation, we've temporarily reduced Droplet capacity in our SFO2 region. Customers who deploy Droplets in SFO2 may see some sizes unavailable or run into capacity errors for large deployments. This is temporary, so if you do encounter an error, we encourage you to try to deploy once more once the maintenance is complete.

Our engineering and operations teams are onsite and will be monitoring affected systems closely throughout the maintenance. Emergency notifications will be sent promptly if any critical impacts arise.

We appreciate your understanding as we work to resolve this situation as quickly and safely as possible.

If you have any questions related to this maintenance please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket

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In late August, an Indigenous group in the Brazilian state of Ceará, in the country’s northeast, brought a formal complaint before federal authorities, asking them to halt the development of...

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