Reports: Oracle Cloud suffered a six-hour outage in Europe yesterday, mainly affecting Germany

Users of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) reported problems with the service in various parts of Europe yesterday. The incident occurred around 09:00 AM CET (07:00 UTC) and affected OCI’s identity platform. According to the DownDetector website, there was a significant increase in outage reports from 10:00 AM CET, peaking at 10:30 AM CET (based on more than 100 reports). The reported problems lasted for approximately six hours and were recorded until around 4:00 PM CET.

The Germany Central region in Frankfurt was reportedly particularly affected. An attempt to switch systems to the Netherlands Northwest region in Amsterdam (failover) was apparently unsuccessful. During the incident, Oracle’s official status page provided no confirmation of the issues. Oracle did not initially respond to requests for comment.

Oracle reportedly experienced a cyberattack on parts of its cloud infrastructure last month. Initially, a security incident in Oracle’s OCI area was denied. Later, the company admitted to at least two customers that a compromise had occurred, which, however, only affected an older generation, the so-called Oracle Cloud Classic. Usernames from two outdated servers, which were not part of OCI, were allegedly published in the process.