What's worse is that their "real time" status is not showing any issues.<p>https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/#/<p>I had to confirm the outage based on community reported down detector.<p>https://downdetector.com/status/oracle-cloud/<p>All of our services, instances and backups for https://searchadsoptimization.com are in Oracle cloud.<p>This shows a critical issue when relying on a single Cloud provider. It's time to build a cross cloud infrastructure design to handle these issues.<p>Update: It looks like they have updated their “real time” status page after good 25 minutes of severe outage. My trust and assumptions with real time status pages changed completely.<p>I don't understand the point of real time status pages if they are clearly not real time and not accurate.<p>My error notifications were blowing up my phone, the first thing I did is check their status page and assumed issue is within my application, and I couldn't even access my backend application. Out of desperation, I had to check downdetector to confirm the issue. I have formed new respect for downdetector.
Wow, there must be literally tens of people who are worried right now!<p>My shitty, snarky comment aside, I am genuinely curious about why someone would choose Oracle as a cloud provider. If you look at their capex spend, it's undeniable they have <i>so</i> vastly underinvested in their cloud compared to AWS, Azure and GCP, that even if you were an "Oracle shop" I'm genuinely curious what benefits their cloud would offer.<p>Edit: Just want to say I really do appreciate the responses, lots of good info! I didn't know Oracle cloud offered a decent free tier, will take a look.
Cross cloud is really complex and error prone. You'll probably cause more outages than you'll prevent by going down that path.<p>Maybe you should consider moving to a major cloud provider that has better services.
> My trust and assumptions with real time status pages changed completely.<p>FYI this is why we show real-time status on <a href="https://heiioncall.com/status" rel="nofollow">https://heiioncall.com/status</a> including the time of the last inbound check-in or last HTTP probe.
Not all applications need high availability across multiple clouds and the cost increases that go with that. Some applications can afford a couple hours of downtime if the underlying hosting platform as issues instead of needing to do a hot failover to completely different infrastructure.
<i>Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Customer,</i><p><i>We've identified a cooling system issue affecting multiple services in the US East (Ashburn) region. Our engineers are actively working to mitigate the issue.</i>
The reason for outage report should be interesting.<p>My cousin mentioned their erp was down mid-day, and I laughed citing HN like "oh yeah, forgot you're a poor bastard oracle user." It was entirely dead, like everything apparently, most of the day. Sadly the financial people don't care, they will still cut a check to daddy Ellison monthly.<p>At least one large California municipality I worked with made a multi-year concerted effort to abandon the misery that is oracle erp. That said, never heard how that venture panned out with the replacement. Something about a frying pan to the fire comes to mind.
I have a VM there but it wasn't affected. Got this e-mail from Oracle 50 minutes ago:<p>> Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Customer,<p>> Engineers and the colocation partner have successfully installed additional cooling systems to reduce ambient temperatures and mitigate the issue affecting multiple Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services in the US East (Ashburn) region. We will continue to closely monitor this situation.