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Account Registration, Droplets, and Related Services

Minor Impact Resolved Duration: 11d 7h 11m August 8, 2026

Incident Lifecycle

Investigating Investigating Identified Identified Monitoring

Incident Timeline

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
Dat...
Aug 9, 2026 at 12:31 AM UTC
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...
Aug 8, 2026 at 10:02 PM UTC
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 acces...
Aug 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM UTC
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 al...
Aug 8, 2026 at 7:38 PM UTC
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...
Aug 8, 2026 at 6:57 PM UTC
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