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DigitalOcean: OpenAI Rate Limits Affecting Serverless Inference
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As of 18:45 UTC, our Engineering team has resolved the issues with OpenAI rate limits that were affecting certain DigitalOcean services. The problem, which began at approximately 09:30 UTC, caused errors (429s) for Agents using OpenAI models for serverless inference. Systems Affected: Serverless inference Evaluations Technical Details: The issue was caused by exceeding OpenAI rate limits, which resulted in 429 errors for OpenAI models. Duration: The incident lasted for approximately 9 hours, from 09:30 UTC to 18:45 UTC. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your patience as we worked to resolve the issue. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our Support team.
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Status incident (vendor impact label: none) posted by DigitalOcean, started 2025-08-13 09:30 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).
- Title
- OpenAI Rate Limits Affecting Serverless Inference
- Vendor
- DigitalOcean
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean/incidents/pj8lbfkbhvxt
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