By Dan Robinson
Publication Date: 2026-05-07 16:04:00
off-prem
Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues
IBM Cloud has been experiencing some issues today, with reports
that an entire European datacenter was offline this morning for several hours due
to a power outage.
One Reg reader got in contact to inform us that IBM Cloud was offline for at least four hours on Thursday morning, but no issues were shown on the IBM Cloud status page during that time.
Cloud status monitoring service StatusGator showed that Big
Blue’s platform had been flagged as “service down” by at least 10 users during
the morning, with the last report of an outage logged at 2325 UTC.
The Downdetector
service also showed a number of reports highlighting issues with IBM Cloud
starting at about 0715 UTC and continuing through until about 1200 UTC.
Our Reg reader told us that “IBM Cloud’s entire AMS3
datacenter has been offline for at least four…
