Akamai Linode outage, July 2026: Emerging Service Issue - Managed Databases - All Regions

Akamai Linode reported and resolved an incident: Emerging Service Issue - Managed Databases - All Regions. It lasted 21.5 hours.

Resolved

From Akamai Linode's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
21.5 hours
Impact
none
Affected
US-East (Newark), US-Central (Dallas), US-West (Fremont), US-Southeast (Atlanta), Managed Databases, US-IAD (Washington), US-ORD (Chicago), CA-Central (Toronto), EU-West (London), EU-Central (Frankfurt), FR-PAR (Paris), AP-South (Singapore)
  1. Investigating
  2. Identifiednot posted
  3. Monitoringnot posted
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

Akamai Linode has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

How it was resolved

Akamai Linode marked it resolved at 8 July 2026, 1:31 am without a written explanation of the fix.

This incident on the Akamai Linode status page

Timeline

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Akamai Linode's official status page, in their words.

  1. investigating

    Our team is investigating an emerging service issue affecting Managed Databases across all regions. Customers may experience latency when provisioning new databases or deleting existing ones. There is no observed impact to the performance or availability of active, running databases at this time. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.

  2. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

What this means for a business (and what to check now)

  • Retry anything that failed during the 21.5 hours.
  • Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
  • If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.

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