# DigitalOcean: Let's Encrypt Outage Affecting Certificate Issuance and Managed Databases Operations

> DigitalOcean status incident “Let's Encrypt Outage Affecting Certificate Issuance and Managed Databases Operations” on 2026-05-08: impact minor (vendor’s label), 1.1 h, 2 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean/incidents/p3zyn7c4jyx7
Last updated: 2026-05-08T21:54:44Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-05-08 20:46 UTC · Resolved: 2026-05-08 21:54 UTC · Duration: 1.1 h
- Updates: 2 · Affected components: Global, Spaces CDN - Global, Global, Load Balancers - Global, Global, Managed Databases - Global, Global, Spaces - Global, App Platform - Global, Global
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/rw9m9n69q6tg](https://stspg.io/rw9m9n69q6tg)
- [Company: DigitalOcean](https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **identified** 2026-05-08 20:46 UTC: Our Engineering team is aware of an upstream outage with Let's Encrypt (see https://letsencrypt.status.io/) which impacts the following services: - Inability to create new Let's Encrypt certificates for Spaces, Load Balancers, and App Platform Custom Domains - Stuck or delayed creates/forks/restores on Mongo, PG, and MySQL databases. Please note that operations related to Managed Databases and App Platform Custom Domains will automatically retry and should complete successfully once the upstream outage is resolved. We'll continue to monitor this situation and provide updates. We apologize for the inconvenience.
- **resolved** 2026-05-08 21:54 UTC: The upstream outage with Let's Encrypt has been resolved. Customers should now be able to issue Let's Encrypt certificates for Spaces, Load Balancers, and App Platform Custom Domains. Our Engineering team has also confirmed that stuck or delayed actions with Mongo, Advanced PG, and Advanced MySQL databases should complete normally now. We appreciate your patience. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by DigitalOcean, started 2026-05-08 20:46 UTC, resolved after 1.1 h, 2 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean/incidents/p3zyn7c4jyx7
- Citation: DigitalOcean, “Let's Encrypt Outage Affecting Certificate Issuance and Managed Databases Operations” (2026-05-08 20:46 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean/incidents/p3zyn7c4jyx7 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[DigitalOcean: Let's Encrypt Outage Affecting Certificate Issuance and Managed Databases Operations (2026-05-08)](https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean/incidents/p3zyn7c4jyx7)`


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