Digital Ocean Block Storage Performance Issue - New York Region
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Incident Timeline
Monitoring
DO team has implemented mitigation measures for the infrastructure issue affecting Block Storage Volumes in the NYC3 region. The team is monitoring the situation, and we will share another update once the issue is fully resolved
May 20, 2026 at 2:48 AM UTC
Investigating
We are observing an issue with some of the Block Storage Volume Performance in the New York region on Digital Ocean. During this time, users may experience degraded write performance and intermittent impact to services dependent on the affected storage infrastructure. Our Engineering team is working closely with DO team to resolve this issue. We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.
May 20, 2026 at 1:31 AM UTC
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