Internet Status — August 19, 2026: DigitalOcean, Slack Minor Issues

The internet is up. No widespread outages today — just a handful of minor, isolated incidents at individual providers.

DigitalOcean is investigating degraded performance in its MKC1 region (status.digitalocean.com), affecting GPU workloads and some Kubernetes worker nodes across multiple racks since 11:10 UTC. The issue is contained to that single region.

Slack is still working through an incident open since August 13: users in workspaces with custom data retention policies may be unable to load older messages (slack-status.com). Core messaging is unaffected.

Twilio reports carrier-level SMS delivery delays or failures to a few networks in Belgium, Canada, and Brazil (status.twilio.com) — narrow in scope and typical day-to-day carrier churn.

Recently resolved: GitHub had a major incident on August 17 lasting nearly 8 hours, with roughly 20% of web and API requests failing at peak due to network saturation on its Central US load balancers; it was fully resolved the same day and GitHub has been stable since (githubstatus.com). Cloudflare resolved two minor issues in the past day (Durable Objects errors in Hong Kong, elevated CDNJS errors), and Akamai closed out a multi-day Miami latency issue on August 18.

Everything else checks out: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Cloudflare, Akamai, OpenAI, Discord, Atlassian, Zoom, Vercel, Heroku, and Stripe all report normal operations. No BGP, DNS, or routing anomalies detected today. Crowd-sourced outage trackers show only routine, scattered ISP reports.