Multiple Digital Ocean services down (status.digitalocean.com)

DigitalOcean is investigating an outage caused by an upstream provider incident that has degraded or intermittently knocked out several services, including a subset of Gen AI tools, the App Platform, Load Balancers, and Spaces object storage. Users reported slower responses and intermittent failures; engineers say signs of recovery are appearing and most requests are beginning to succeed, but monitoring and remediation remain ongoing. For the AI/ML community this matters because impacted services touch both development and production workflows: Gen AI tooling interruptions can stall model experimentation and inference pipelines, while App Platform, Load Balancers, and Spaces outages affect deployed model endpoints, autoscaling, and data access. The root cause being upstream highlights third‑party dependency risk. Practically, teams should expect transient errors and consider retries with exponential backoff, circuit breakers, multi‑region or multi‑cloud failover, and cached/local fallbacks for model artifacts. This incident underlines the importance of redundancy, robust deployment patterns, and checking DigitalOcean’s status updates for restoration timelines.