According to DCD, OVHcloud experienced a significant outage at its Gravelines, France cloud region that began at 08:36 UTC on November 24 and lasted until 14:38 UTC the same day. The six-hour disruption impacted instances across four data center zones: GRA5, GRA7, GRA9, and GRA11. Customers were temporarily unable to access and use their instances during the incident. OVHcloud identified the “source” of the problem around 14:32 UTC, just minutes before resolution. This marks another reliability incident for the European cloud provider, following their devastating 2021 Strasbourg fire that destroyed a data center and led to customer lawsuits.
Reliability Concerns Mount
Here’s the thing about cloud providers – when they go down, businesses go down with them. And OVHcloud is developing a bit of a pattern here. The 2021 Strasbourg fire was catastrophic, literally burning customer infrastructure to the ground. Now we’ve got another multi-zone outage in their Gravelines region. What’s particularly concerning is that OVHcloud still hasn’t revealed the cause of either incident. That doesn’t exactly inspire confidence when you’re trusting them with your critical infrastructure.
Competitive Landscape
This outage couldn’t come at a worse time for OVHcloud. They’re trying to position themselves as the European alternative to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. But when reliability issues stack up, enterprises start asking hard questions. The big three hyperscalers aren’t immune to outages either, but they’ve generally been more transparent about causes and prevention measures. For companies considering industrial panel PCs and other specialized hardware that needs reliable cloud connectivity, these repeated incidents might push them toward more established providers.
Broader Implications
Basically, every outage like this makes the case for multi-cloud strategies stronger. Putting all your eggs in one provider’s basket seems increasingly risky. And for industrial applications where downtime means production lines stopping and real money being lost, reliability isn’t just a feature – it’s the entire product. Companies relying on cloud infrastructure for manufacturing operations need to seriously consider whether single-provider dependencies make sense anymore. The conversation is shifting from “which cloud provider” to “how do we architect across multiple providers.”
