Account Registration, Droplets, and Related Services

lowDigitalOceanAug 8, 2026 18:57Duration: 6h 3m
networkdnsdatabaseauthenticationcapacity
DNS FailureDatabase OverloadNetwork / RoutingCapacity IssueAuthentication Issue

Summary

Our Engineering team confirms the full resolution of the issue affecting all impacted services, including new account registration, Droplet Creation, Reserved IPs, Automated Backups and Snapshots, Droplet Autoscale, DOKS clusters, GenAI services, the Droplet Console, and Database cluster creation. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Aug 8, 2026 18:57

[investigating] Our Engineering team is currently investigating reports of an issue affecting new account registration, Reserved IPs, Snapshots, Droplets and Droplet-based services across multiple regions. During this time, customers may be unable to create new accounts, create Droplets, allocate Reserved IPs, or perform Automated Backups and Snapshots operations. Droplet Autoscale scaling operations and DOKS cluster operations are also affected. Our Engineering team is actively investigating the issue and we will provide another update as soon as more information becomes available.

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+41m
Aug 8, 2026 19:38

[investigating] Our Engineering team is continuing to investigate reports of an issue affecting new account registration, Reserved IPs, Snapshots, Droplets and Droplet-based services across multiple regions. During this time, customers may be unable to create new accounts, create Droplets, allocate Reserved IPs, or perform Automated Backups and Snapshots operations. Droplet Autoscale scaling operations and DOKS cluster operations are also affected. Further investigation has found that GenAI services are also affected due to this issue, customers may also be unable to access the Droplet console, and Database clusters may be stuck in a "Creating" state. Our Engineering team is actively investigating the issue and we will provide another update as soon as more information becomes available.

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+24m
Aug 8, 2026 20:02

[identified] Our Engineering team has identified the root cause of the issue affecting new account registration, Droplets, Reserved IPs, Snapshots, and DOKS clusters across multiple regions. Customers may experience the following: Unable to create new accounts Unable to create Droplets Unable to allocate Reserved IPs Failures with Automated Backups and Snapshots operations Droplet Autoscale scaling operations not working as expected DOKS cluster operations failing GenAI services impacted Unable to access the Droplet console Database clusters stuck in a "Creating" state Our Engineering team is working on implementing a fix and we will provide another update as soon as more information becomes available.

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+2h
Aug 8, 2026 22:02

[identified] Our Engineering team continues to work on implementing and rolling out a fix for the issue affecting multiple services across multiple regions, including new account registration, Droplets, Reserved IPs, Automated Backups and Snapshots, Droplet Autoscale, DOKS clusters, GenAI services, the Droplet console, and Database cluster creation. Customers may continue to experience the previously reported service disruptions while remediation efforts remain in progress. We will provide another update as soon as more information becomes available.

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+2h 29m
Aug 9, 2026 00:31

[monitoring] Our Engineering team has implemented a fix for the issue affecting new account registration, Droplets, Reserved IPs, Snapshots, and DOKS clusters across multiple regions, and is currently monitoring the situation. At this time, customers should no longer experience errors with: New account registration Droplet creation Reserved IP allocation Automated Backups and Snapshots operations Droplet Autoscale scaling operations DOKS cluster operations GenAI services Access to the Droplet console Database cluster creation We will continue to monitor the situation to ensure that all services are stable and functioning as expected. We will post an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved.

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+30m
Aug 9, 2026 01:01

[resolved] Our Engineering team confirms the full resolution of the issue affecting all impacted services, including new account registration, Droplet Creation, Reserved IPs, Automated Backups and Snapshots, Droplet Autoscale, DOKS clusters, GenAI services, the Droplet Console, and Database cluster creation. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.

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Lessons Learned

DigitalOcean has experienced 109 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to network, dns, database, authentication, capacity have occurred 459 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: DNS Failure, Database Overload, Network / Routing, Capacity Issue, Authentication Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.