Promised uptime vs actual

35 vendors · 99 services

Droplets (CPU) SLA

DigitalOcean · Compute · promises up to 99.99% · SLA of Jun 3, 2025 · checked 47d ago

No major outage in the last 365 days: 100% observed against the 99.99% All Droplets (instance-level).

Last 90 days: no major outage.

Incidents, last 365 days

No incidents on file for this service.

Major outage time per month

Allowed per month: 4.4 min

Commitments and credits

99.99%
All Droplets (instance-level)
Each individual Droplet instance
Credit: below 99.99%: 100%

SLA changes

SLA page changedUnverifiedOct 23, 2026
Droplets (CPU)
The SLA page text changed (3 sentences added, 3 removed); it still states 99.99%.
2 weeks agoPage

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Terms, exclusions and sources
Measured
Per individual Droplet: (minutes in month - minutes of Unavailability) / minutes in month
Credit cap
Credits apply only to charges for the affected Droplet resources
Claim window
Within two (2) billing cycles of the month when the downtime occurred
How to claim
Email success@digitalocean.com with account email, affected Droplet and outage times
Not covered
Scheduled maintenance or customer-initiated downtime; Factors beyond DigitalOcean's reasonable control (force majeure, third-party outages); Account restrictions, misuse, or violation of the Customer Agreement; Customer application code or configuration errors
Status history
Status history since Sep 22, 2025
DigitalOcean commits to a Monthly Uptime Percentage of 99.99% for each individual Droplet instance.
DigitalOcean, Last Updated on June 3, 2025. Read the SLA

Single-step schedule: less than 99.99% = 100% credit of the affected Droplet's charges. DOKS control plane and DBaaS are covered by their own SLAs.

All DigitalOcean SLAsHow this is measured