Is IBM Cloud Down?

No — IBM Cloud is up

Reachable from all 8 checked regions

Average response time: 771ms

Last checked 17 minutes ago · checks run every 6 hours

Official status page: https://cloud.ibm.com/status

IBM Cloud uptime

100%

Last 7 days

100%

Last 30 days

100%

Last 90 days

846ms

Avg response, 30 days

Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 57 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

30-day history

57-day clean streak

Sep 14 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Reachability by region

Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.

gru

1279ms

DNS 0ms TCP 2ms TLS 6ms TTFB 1269ms

iad

719ms

DNS 0ms TCP 6ms TLS 14ms TTFB 677ms

jnb

2038ms

DNS 0ms TCP 0ms TLS 3ms TTFB 2034ms

lax

359ms

DNS 0ms TCP 1ms TLS 5ms TTFB 327ms

lhr

426ms

DNS 0ms TCP 1ms TLS 4ms TTFB 418ms

nrt

442ms

DNS 0ms TCP 0ms TLS 3ms TTFB 438ms

ord

224ms

DNS 0ms TCP 1ms TLS 4ms TTFB 216ms

sin

681ms

DNS 0ms TCP 1ms TLS 3ms TTFB 675ms

What IBM Cloud does

IBM Cloud is an enterprise platform for running applications across hybrid and multicloud environments, combining infrastructure, platform services, AI and automation with compliance controls aimed at regulated industries. Banks, insurers and public sector bodies run mission-critical workloads on it, often alongside on-premises systems, so an incident tends to surface inside internal applications rather than on a consumer website.

What an outage looks like

Provisioning fails or hangs while already-running instances keep serving, which is the usual shape of a control-plane incident. The IBM Cloud console will not load or times out on login. API and CLI calls return 5xx. Because IBM Cloud is organised by region and zone, one location can fail while workloads in another run untouched, so check where the affected service is deployed.

What to do about it

cloud.ibm.com/status carries unplanned incidents, planned maintenance, announcements and security bulletins, with write-ups at cloud.ibm.com/status/incident-reports. Filter to the services and regions you actually use, since the platform is wide and most entries will not apply. Hold off on redeploying during a control-plane incident: new provisioning is often the failing part while running workloads are fine.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says IBM Cloud is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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IBM Cloud outage FAQ

Are my running workloads affected during an IBM Cloud incident?

Often not. Many cloud incidents hit the control plane, meaning the console, APIs and provisioning, while instances already running continue to serve traffic. Check whether the reported service is one your application calls at runtime or only one you use to deploy. If it is the latter, the safest action during the incident is to change nothing.

Is IBM Cloud down globally or in one region?

Usually one region or zone. IBM Cloud is deployed across regions and availability zones, and the status page identifies which location an incident affects. A workload in Frankfurt can be untouched while Dallas is degraded. Confirm where your services are actually deployed before responding, since most entries on a large platform's status page will not apply to you.

Where do I find the write-up after an IBM Cloud outage?

cloud.ibm.com/status/incident-reports carries incident reports, and the announcements section covers planned changes. These are the documents to quote in an internal post-mortem or to a customer asking why a service was unavailable, since a screenshot of a status banner rarely satisfies either audience for long.

Does an IBM Cloud outage affect IBM's other products?

Not necessarily. IBM Cloud is the platform for infrastructure and platform services, and other IBM offerings can run elsewhere or report through their own channels; IBM Security publishes a separate status page. Match the specific service your team depends on rather than treating everything carrying the IBM name as one system.

How we measure this

We request IBM Cloud's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them.
A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
Where IBM Cloud publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.

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