This is definitely not true on Digital Ocean, or at least it's not just a ui thing. The API actually takes this long to return a value, and even once droplets a

This is definitely not true on Digital Ocean, or at least it's not just a ui thing. The API actually takes this long to return a value, and even once droplets are shown in the dashboard it can take a minute before the network interfaces are bound. If anyone at DO is listening why does this take time at all? Why not have instance types pre-provsioned and booted and just run cloud-init when the user makes the droplet? Instant provisioning would be incredibly useful for scaling and fault tolerance.