Outage in DigitalOcean

Droplet Creation

Resolved Minor
August 26, 2025 - Started 2 days ago - Lasted about 2 hours
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Outage Details

Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue with Droplet creation in multiple regions. This is only affecting new accounts at this time. Existing users are not impacted. Users with new accounts may experience an elevated failure rate when attempting to create Droplets during this time. We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.
Components affected
DigitalOcean Global
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED 2 days ago - at 08/26/2025 08:01PM

Our Engineering team has confirmed full resolution of the issue impacting Droplet creation in all regions. Users can now create Droplets without any issues.

We appreciate your patience while we worked to fix this issue. If you continue to experience any problems, please open a ticket from your account for further investigation.

MONITORING 2 days ago - at 08/26/2025 07:33PM

Our Engineering team has identified the reason behind the failed Droplet creates and implemented a fix to resolve the issue. Users should now be able to create Droplets.

We are actively monitoring the situation and will post an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved.

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 08/26/2025 06:30PM

Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue with Droplet creation in multiple regions. This is only affecting new accounts at this time. Existing users are not impacted.

Users with new accounts may experience an elevated failure rate when attempting to create Droplets during this time.

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

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