Live status & reliability report

IBM Cloud status, outages & reliability

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IBM Cloud is IBM's public cloud platform offering virtual servers, VPC, Kubernetes and OpenShift, storage, databases and watsonx AI services.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 90 days IBM Cloud had 100% effective uptime across 1 status page incident (1 partial or major outage).

88.4/100Reliability scoreVisit IBM Cloud ↗

Is IBM Cloud down right now?

No, IBM Cloud is up and running.

  • IBM Cloud's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
  • All 3 IBM Cloud pages we check are responding. Checked .

Official IBM Cloud status page ↗

Uptime (90d)100%<1m weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)10.3 per 30 days
Major / partial outages1
Avg time to resolve—
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 5, 2026 – Oct 20, 2026: no incidentsOct 21, 2026: 100% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 22, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago100% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about IBM Cloud's reliability

  • Over the past 12 months, IBM Cloud published 1 incident on its status page, 1 of them partial or major outages.
  • IBM Cloud's 90-day uptime of 100% is above the average for cloud providers (97.18%).

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
100
100% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
92
0.33 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
50
No resolved incidents in window
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

01234DecJan ’26FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSep1 partial outage incident1OctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of IBM Cloud's public pages, measured by our probes.

0ms164ms328msNov 1, 2026: 295msNov 2, 2026: 298msNov 1, 2026Nov 2, 2026

Score trend

Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).

050100Nov 1, 2026: 88.4Nov 2, 2026: 88.4Nov 1, 2026Nov 2, 2026

IBM Cloud incident history (last 90 days)

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Our independent monitoring

We check these public IBM Cloud pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
Cloud console loginUp 100%158 ms
Product pageUp 100%535 ms
IAM OpenID configurationUp 100%196 ms

How IBM Cloud compares

IBM Cloud vs Hetzner Cloud

100% vs 99.57% uptime

IBM Cloud vs Amazon Web Services (AWS)

100% vs 99.43% uptime

IBM Cloud vs UpCloud

100% vs 99.37% uptime

IBM Cloud vs Google Cloud

100% vs 98.90% uptime

IBM Cloud vs DigitalOcean

100% vs 98.04% uptime

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100% vs 98.36% uptime

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IBM Cloud status FAQ

Is IBM Cloud down right now?

No, IBM Cloud is up and running. IBM Cloud's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 3 of the IBM Cloud pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.

How reliable is IBM Cloud?

IBM Cloud has a reliability score of 88.4 out of 100, ranking #1 of 9 cloud providers. Over the last 90 days it had 100% effective uptime.

How often does IBM Cloud have outages?

IBM Cloud published 1 incident on its status page in the last 90 days (1 partial or major outage) and 1 in the past 12 months.

Does IBM Cloud have a status page?

Yes. IBM Cloud's official status page is cloud.ibm.com/status. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.