Oracle silent over user complaints about OCI London 'wobble' last week

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) users reported an outage late last week in its London region, yet despite complaints from Register readers, Big Red is staying quiet.

There is a philosophical thought experiment: "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" Something similar could apply to cloud vendors – if a cloud falls over, but few people use it, has it truly fallen over?

In the case of OCI, something happened on Friday. The company's status page insists everything was hunky dory, and when we approached the company about this story, it declined to comment.

However, Register readers noted that something was amiss from around 1230 local time. One told us, "On Friday our Fusion Production system disappeared for just under 10 minutes, then came back, but was really slow.

"Totally different with our Test environments, they didn't ...