Digital Ocean Block Storage Performance Issue - New York Region

Incident Report for Cloudways

Monitoring

DO team has implemented mitigation measures for the infrastructure issue affecting Block Storage Volumes in the NYC3 region. The team is monitoring the situation, and we will share another update once the issue is fully resolved
Posted May 20, 2026 - 02:48 UTC

Investigating

We are observing an issue with some of the Block Storage Volume Performance in the New York region on Digital Ocean. During this time, users may experience degraded write performance and intermittent impact to services dependent on the affected storage infrastructure. Our Engineering team is working closely with DO team to resolve this issue. We apologize for the inconvenience and will share an update once we have more information.
Posted May 20, 2026 - 01:31 UTC
This incident affects: Cloud Providers (DigitalOcean).