European customers report Oracle Cloud identity outage, Big Red is silent

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) experienced an outage in Europe earlier today, according to users and online metrics. The Register understands that OCI's identity platform was down in parts of Europe around 0700 UTC this morning, even though Big Red's official status page did not acknowledge the issue. ellison Oracle …

[alain williams]

Is big red silent ...

because no one can login to diagnose or talk about the problem ?

[Excused Boots]

" later spoke to at least two customers about the fallout of the security lapse.”

So as many as three or four! WOW!

[FIA]

Well, if we’re being pedantic, no. It’s two; possibly more. ;)

[ecofeco]

All your cloud

...are belong to us.

[DirtBurger]

Wait, what!?

Remind me... which cloud is this we're talking about??

[ChoHag]

Re: Wait, what!?

All that matters is that it's not yours, it's someone else's.

Just sit on your hands, do nothing, and wait for the devopses (someone else's devopses!) to figure out that they haven't got a clue what to do about it.

[Pascal Monett]

"Big Red denied then admitted"

The typical behavior of modern "reliable" companies.

Six years to retirement.

Six.

Hang on, just hang on . . .

[sanmigueelbeer]

Re: "Big Red denied then admitted"

/me five more years!

[wolfetone]

Re: "Big Red denied then admitted"

/me 25 years.

I hate both of you.

[Roger Kynaston]

retirement clock

/me 7 years.

I hate them too but probably less than you.

[wolfetone]

Re: retirement clock

You're all bastards.

[seven of five]

Re: retirement clock

Well, that's part of the job, isn't it?

[Dan 55]

Re: "Big Red denied then admitted"

I'm old enough to remember this from a month ago:

Oracle's masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeat

[EnviableOne]

OCI

Offline Cracked Infrastructure?

They need to sort this out, or their already tiny share of the cloud market is going to shrivel to nothing

[TimMaher]

Re: Shrivel to nothing.

Well, that’s a benefit.

[Anonymous Coward]

When Status pages are a work of fiction

Not that I would trust Big Red as far as I could throw them.

But it's hard to trust a company that doesn't even put major outages on their status page!

Quite the culture you have going in there Larry....

[openjunk2]

Re: When Status pages are a work of fiction

depends where you look and what was affected,

https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com Was all green happy days and indeed I had no issues with OCI

but

https://saasstatus.oracle.com/ Was read and Orange not so happy days.And clients with a saas were not having a good time.