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Major Service Interruption in MKC1

Critical Impact Resolved Duration: 14h 59m August 19, 2026

Incident Lifecycle

Investigating Identified Identified Monitoring
Affected Components
MKC1 MKC1

Incident Timeline

Monitoring
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 m...
Aug 19, 2026 at 6:59 PM UTC
Identified
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.
Aug 19, 2026 at 3:28 PM UTC
Identified
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-manage...
Aug 19, 2026 at 12:22 PM UTC
Investigating
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.
Aug 19, 2026 at 11:10 AM UTC
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