# DigitalOcean: OpenAI Rate Limits Affecting Serverless Inference

> DigitalOcean status incident “OpenAI Rate Limits Affecting Serverless Inference” on 2025-08-13: impact none (vendor’s label), 0 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean/incidents/pj8lbfkbhvxt
Last updated: 2025-08-13T09:30:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): none
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2025-08-13 09:30 UTC · Resolved: 2025-08-13 09:30 UTC · Duration: 0 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/pj8lbfkbhvxt](https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/pj8lbfkbhvxt)
- [Company: DigitalOcean](https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2025-08-13 09:30 UTC: 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.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: none) posted by DigitalOcean, started 2025-08-13 09:30 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean/incidents/pj8lbfkbhvxt
- Citation: DigitalOcean, “OpenAI Rate Limits Affecting Serverless Inference” (2025-08-13 09:30 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean/incidents/pj8lbfkbhvxt (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[DigitalOcean: OpenAI Rate Limits Affecting Serverless Inference (2025-08-13)](https://rewindex.com/company/digitalocean/incidents/pj8lbfkbhvxt)`


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