DigitalOcean outage on 2026-08-19: Degraded Performance in MKC1

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, degraded performance for Serverless Inference, and Kubernetes (DOKS) worker nodes may remain in a NotReady state and inability to reach Kubernetes API endpoints or perform cluster-management operations in affected clusters. We will provide another update as soon as we have more information.