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Sep 18, 23:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Sep 18, 21:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Sep 16, 03:59 UTC
Scheduled - The Infrastructure Maintenance in NYC2 which was previously scheduled to start on 2024-09-09 at 21:00 UTC has been rescheduled to the following window:

Start: 2024-09-18 21:00 UTC
End: 2024-09-18 23:00 UTC

During the above window, our Networking team will be performing maintenance on the management network firewalls in the NYC2 region.

Expected Impact:

During the maintenance period, users may experience delays of up to 10 minutes with Event Processing on Droplets and Droplet-based services in NYC2. We will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this maintenance, please reach out to us by opening up a ticket on your account via https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket/

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Sep 16, 07:00 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team identified an issue with accessing Cloud Panel and Application deployment which is due to the increased level of HTTP 499 errors rates at Upstream Provider end.

From 04:21 - 06:06 UTC, users may have experienced issues while accessing Cloud Panel and Application deployments.

Our Upstream provider and the Engineering team closely worked together to resolve the issue.

The impact has completely subsided and users should no longer see any issues with the impacted services.

If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team from your Cloud Control Panel. Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience.

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Sep 12, 00:56 UTC
Resolved - From 22:03 September 11 to 00:13 September 12 UTC, users may have experienced failures with creating Droplets in the LON1 region.

Our Engineering team has confirmed resolution of this issue with users now being able to create Droplets in LON1. Thank you for your patience.

If you continue to experience any problems, please open a support ticket from within your account.

Sep 12, 00:23 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has implemented mitigations for the intermittent issues with Droplet creates in LON1. The team is monitoring the situation, and we will share an update once this is fully resolved.

Sep 11, 23:45 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue with Droplet creation in LON1. During this time, users may see an elevated failure rate for the creation of Droplets and other Droplet-based products, such as Load Balancers, Managed Databases, or Kubernetes, in LON1.

Sep 11, 17:22 UTC
Resolved - From 15:20 - 16:10 UTC, our Engineering team observed an issue with network connectivity in the BLR1 region. During this time, users might have experienced varying amounts of packet loss and high latency with network connections going in or out of the BLR1 region, resulting in issues connecting to DigitalOcean services.

As of 16:10 UTC, the impact has subsided and users should no longer be facing network connectivity issues. We apologize for the inconvenience and if you are still experiencing issues or have any additional questions then please open a support ticket from within your account.

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E-commerce giant Alibaba.com is setting its sights on America’s mom-and-pop businesses. Founded in 1999 by Jack Ma and 17 of his friends, Alibaba.com became an e-commerce behemoth that connects suppliers...

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Sep 10, 21:06 UTC
Resolved - From 18:23 to 19:21 UTC, users were unable to complete registration of new cloud.digitalocean.com accounts, due to an upstream outage.

This issue is now fully resolved and users should be able to sign up normally.

We apologize for the inconvenience and invite users to retry any failed attempts. If you continue to experience issues or have any questions, please reach out to Support from within your account.

Sep 10, 20:48 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has confirmed there was an upstream outage that affected a component of the sign up flow for cloud.digitalocean.com accounts. The outage has been resolved by the provider.

We are monitoring the situation and will post an update shortly.

Sep 10, 19:50 UTC
Identified - Our Engineering team has identified the issue impacting new account sign-ups. Users should no longer encounter errors and should be able to sign up again.

Our Engineering team continues to monitor the situation and we will post an update as soon as additional information is available.

Sep 10, 19:18 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue with users attempting to sign up for new cloud.digitalocean.com accounts. At this time, users attempting to sign up are unable to complete registration.

Existing users are unaffected and should be able to sign in normally.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.

Sep 10, 21:04 UTC
Completed - Our Engineering team has successfully completed this maintenance.

Thank you for your patience throughout the extended window. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to Support from within your account.

Sep 10, 17:55 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Sep 10, 17:54 UTC
Scheduled - Our Engineering team has run into some operations taking longer than expected for the previous maintenance window here: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/vmtp7c19bq2l.

No user impact has occurred as a result of those operations and we do not expect any customer impact, but there is a possibility impact could occur.

Users could experience issues interacting with the control plane for services, via both the Cloud Control Panel and API. This would include operations such as creates, deletes, updates, Snapshots, etc.

Existing services will continue to run normally.

We will update this page if impact occurs.

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Sep 10, 05:11 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team identified a networking issue with our upstream provider in the SGP1 region. From 00:25 to 04:00 UTC, users may have experienced connectivity issues to DockerHub from Droplets, App Platform and Managed Kubernetes in the SGP1 region.

Our Engineering team has confirmed there is no longer any impact and connectivity should be restored for all customers.

We apologize for the inconvenience. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.

Sep 9, 22:59 UTC
Resolved - From 17:04 UTC to 21:43 UTC, users may not have seen the option to resize an attached Block Storage Volume via the Cloud Control Panel, or may have encountered errors when attempting to resize attached Volumes via the API.

Our Engineering team has confirmed the resolution of the issue and Volume resizes should now be functioning normally in all regions.

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

Sep 9, 21:58 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team have implemented a fix for the issue of resizing Droplet-attached Block Storage Volumes in all regions and are monitoring the situation closely. We will post another update once we're confident that the issue is fully resolved.

Sep 9, 21:15 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue with resizing Droplet-attached Block Storage Volumes in all regions. Beginning at 17:04 UTC, users may not see the option to resize the Volume via the Cloud Control Panel, as well as see errors when attempting to resize attached Volumes via the API.

At this time, unattached Volumes are able to be resized correctly.

We will post an update once further information is available.

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