Promised uptime vs actual

35 vendors · 99 services

DigitalOcean SLA

Cloud · 8 of 8 services with an SLA · up to 99.99% · checked 47d ago

Services

Kept its SLA99.95%
App Platform
DigitalOcean promises 99.95% uptime, with a 10% credit when it misses; its status page showed no major outage in the last year.
Observed 100% over 365 days
Kept its SLA99.95%
Container Registry
DigitalOcean promises 99.95% uptime, with a 10% credit when it misses; its status page showed no major outage in the last year.
Observed 100% over 365 days
Kept its SLA99.95%
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) HA control plane
DigitalOcean promises 99.95% uptime, with a 10% credit when it misses; its status page showed no major outage in the last year.
Observed 100% over 365 days
Kept its SLA99.99%
Droplets (CPU)
DigitalOcean promises 99.99% uptime, with a 100% credit when it misses; its status page showed no major outage in the last year.
Observed 100% over 365 days
Kept its SLA99.95%
Managed Databases
DigitalOcean promises 99.95% uptime, with a 10% credit when it misses; its status page showed no major outage in the last year.
Observed 100% over 365 days
Kept its SLA99.9%
Regional Load Balancers
DigitalOcean promises 99.9% uptime, with a 10% credit when it misses; its status page showed no major outage in the last year.
Observed 100% over 365 days
Kept its SLA99.9%
Spaces Object Storage
DigitalOcean promises 99.9% uptime, with a 10% credit when it misses; its status page showed no major outage in the last year.
Observed 100% over 365 days
Kept its SLA99.99%
Volumes Block Storage
DigitalOcean promises 99.99% uptime, with a 100% credit when it misses; its status page showed no major outage in the last year.
Observed 100% over 365 days

Latest incidents

Status page
DegradedOct 27, 2026
Kubernetes Cluster Management Operations
A partial outage or slowdown on Global for 3.7 h, not counted as downtime.
13 days ago
MinorOct 11, 2026
DNS Resolution for Managed Kubernetes
A minor incident on Global for 87 min, not counted as downtime.
4 weeks ago
MinorOct 5, 2026
VPC Networking Availability
A minor incident on Global for 95 min, not counted as downtime.
5 weeks ago
MinorSep 16, 2026
Support Portal Service Disruption
A minor incident on Support Center for 11 h, not counted as downtime.
7 weeks ago
MinorSep 9, 2026
Power Degradation impacting GPU Performance in ATL1
A minor incident on ATL1 for 98 min, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
OutageAug 24, 2026
Cloud Control Panel and API
A major outage on API, Cloud Control Panel for 26 h, counted as downtime.
2 months ago
MinorAug 23, 2026
Managed Databases Creation
A minor incident on NYC1, NYC3 for 9.4 h, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
MinorAug 21, 2026
Container Registry and Spaces Accessibility
A minor incident on Global, Global for 1.9 h, not counted as downtime.
2 months ago
OutageAug 19, 2026
Major Service Interruption in MKC1
A major outage on MKC1, MKC1 for 8.4 h, counted as downtime.
2 months ago
MinorAug 8, 2026
Account Registration, Droplets, and Related Services
A minor incident on Global, Global, Global and 1 more for 6 h, not counted as downtime.
3 months ago
MinorAug 6, 2026
Functions on App Platform
A minor incident on Global, Global for 2.1 h, not counted as downtime.
3 months ago
MinorAug 4, 2026
Spaces Cold Storage Billing
A minor incident on Global, Billing for 5.5 h, not counted as downtime.
3 months ago

Support response times

Plans
Fastest 1 dFree
Starter
All: < 24 hours
Fastest 8 h$24.00 per month
Developer
All: < 8 hours
Fastest 2 h$99.00 per month
Standard
All: < 2 hours
Fastest 30 min$999.00 per month
Premium
All: < 30 minutes

SLA changes

SLA page changedUnverifiedOct 23, 2026
Container Registry
The SLA page text changed (18 sentences added, 12 removed); it still states 99.95%.
2 weeks agoPage
SLA page changedUnverifiedOct 23, 2026
Regional Load Balancers
The SLA page text changed (9 sentences added, 8 removed); it still states 99.9%.
2 weeks agoPage
SLA page changedUnverifiedOct 23, 2026
Volumes Block Storage
The SLA page text changed (3 sentences added, 3 removed); it still states 99.99%.
2 weeks agoPage
SLA page changedUnverifiedOct 23, 2026
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) HA control plane
The SLA page text changed (4 sentences added, 4 removed); it still states 99.95%.
2 weeks agoPage
SLA page changedUnverifiedOct 23, 2026
App Platform
The SLA page text changed (9 sentences added, 8 removed); it still states 99.95%.
2 weeks agoPage
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
SLA page changedUnverifiedOct 23, 2026
Spaces Object Storage
The SLA page text changed (14 sentences added, 12 removed); it still states 99.9%.
2 weeks agoPage
About DigitalOcean

SLAs apply to all paying accounts (no enterprise gate). DigitalOcean states: 'We do not offer different support request response times based on the severity of an issue.' The www.digitalocean.com/platform/support-plans page is client-rendered; figures taken from docs.digitalocean.com/platform/support-plans/. Status component names checked against status.digitalocean.com components API today.

DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational technology company and cloud service provider. The company is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, US, with 15 globally distributed data centers. Source

Highest commitment: Droplets (CPU), 99.99% (All Droplets (instance-level)).

Status history
Status history since Sep 22, 2025