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Live now / Halden Cloud Frankfurt outage
Halden Cloud’s Frankfurt region is down.
Compute, storage and managed Kubernetes in the European provider’s largest region have been unavailable since 06:12 CET. Hospitals, three city councils and hundreds of firms are affected. We are following the recovery and asking what it means for sovereign-cloud promises.
Latest updates
- KeyManaged Kubernetes control plane is back
- Correction to our 08:05 update
- A hosting rival offers free temporary capacity
- KeyObject storage restored for 70% of customers
- Customers count the cost
All 13 updates → · Times CET
What we know
- A cooling failure at one of three Frankfurt data halls triggered an automatic shutdown at 06:12 CET. A failover to the other two halls did not complete.
- Halden Cloud says no customer data has been lost. Storage is replicated; the problem is access, not durability.
- Customers running in two regions recovered within minutes. Single-region customers are still waiting.
- The provider has filed an early warning with its national authority, as NIS2 requires within 24 hours of a significant incident.
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