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DigitalOcean Reports Critical Outage in MKC1 Region

Multiple racks and nodes down; GPU workloads and Kubernetes clusters affected.

By The Downtime · Aug 19, 2026 · 3:30 PM ·Updated 3 days ago

DigitalOcean is experiencing a critical service interruption in its MKC1 region, affecting multiple racks and nodes. The company has identified the root cause and is actively implementing remediation steps.

DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider offering compute, storage, and managed services including Kubernetes and GPU workloads to developers and businesses of all sizes.

The outage began with DigitalOcean's engineering team investigating the issue. The company subsequently identified the root cause and began remediation efforts. Affected customers are experiencing disruptions to GPU workloads and Serverless Inference services. Kubernetes (DOKS) worker nodes are entering a NotReady state, and some customers are unable to reach Kubernetes API endpoints or perform cluster-management operations. DigitalOcean is urging customers experiencing ongoing issues to open support tickets.

This is a developing story; we will update as more information becomes available.

🕒 Live updates (5)

resolved Aug 19, 7:34 PM

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.

monitoring Aug 19, 6:59 PM

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.

identified Aug 19, 3:28 PM

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.

identified Aug 19, 12:22 PM

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.

investigating Aug 19, 11:10 AM

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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