Live: Halden Cloud’s Frankfurt region is down after a cooling failure. What failed, who is affected, NIS2 reporting and what customers should do now.https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/enhttps://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-1031-kubernetes-control-plane-backhttps://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-1031-kubernetes-control-plane-backHalden Cloud says cluster APIs in Frankfurt are responding again. Worker nodes are being restarted in batches; customers should expect workloads to reschedule over the next hour.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:31:00 GMTLena HartwigHalden Cloud Frankfurt outageKey momentnewsroom@eurotechbrief.com (Lena Hartwig)https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-1026-correction-0805https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-1026-correction-0805We earlier said two city councils were affected. A third, in the Rhine-Main area, has since confirmed its permit portal is offline. The entry below has been updated.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:26:00 GMTIlse VargaHalden Cloud Frankfurt outageCorrectionnewsroom@eurotechbrief.com (Ilse Varga)https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-1020-rival-free-capacityhttps://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-1020-rival-free-capacityTwo smaller European providers have posted offers of free capacity for a week to customers who need to fail over. We have not verified how many customers have taken them up.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:20:00 GMTTomasz WronaHalden Cloud Frankfurt outagenewsroom@eurotechbrief.com (Tomasz Wrona)https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-1012-object-storage-restoredhttps://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-1012-object-storage-restoredBuckets are readable again for most customers, according to Halden Cloud. Writes remain disabled in the affected hall while engineers verify replication consistency.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:12:00 GMTLena HartwigHalden Cloud Frankfurt outageKey momentnewsroom@eurotechbrief.com (Lena Hartwig)https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0948-customers-count-the-costhttps://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0948-customers-count-the-costWe asked readers running on Halden Frankfurt how they were affected. Responses came from hospitals, logistics firms, municipal IT teams and software companies.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:48:00 GMTAna RibeiroHalden Cloud Frankfurt outagenewsroom@eurotechbrief.com (Ana Ribeiro)https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0915-cto-speakshttps://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0915-cto-speaksOn a call with customers and press, the company’s CTO explained why the failover stalled: a configuration check blocked the move because the two remaining halls would have run above their safe power limit.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:15:00 GMTLena HartwigHalden Cloud Frankfurt outagenewsroom@eurotechbrief.com (Lena Hartwig)https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0840-root-causehttps://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0840-root-causeHalden Cloud confirmed that a chiller fault in hall B forced an automatic shutdown. Automated failover to halls A and C began but was halted by a capacity safeguard.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:40:00 GMTLena HartwigHalden Cloud Frankfurt outageKey momentnewsroom@eurotechbrief.com (Lena Hartwig)https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0805-councils-and-hospitalshttps://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0805-councils-and-hospitalsOnline permit services in three councils are offline. Two hospital groups say clinical systems are running on local fallbacks; appointment booking and staff email are down.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:05:00 GMTTomasz WronaHalden Cloud Frankfurt outagenewsroom@eurotechbrief.com (Tomasz Wrona)https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0740-why-this-mattershttps://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0740-why-this-mattersHalden Cloud is one of the providers most often named in public tenders that require EU ownership. Today tests a claim at the heart of the sovereignty debate: that local control can come with hyperscaler-grade resilience.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:40:00 GMTIlse VargaHalden Cloud Frankfurt outagenewsroom@eurotechbrief.com (Ilse Varga)https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0722-nis2-early-warninghttps://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0722-nis2-early-warningHalden Cloud says it has notified its national authority, as the directive requires within 24 hours of a significant incident. A fuller notification is due within 72 hours.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:22:00 GMTIlse VargaHalden Cloud Frankfurt outageKey momentnewsroom@eurotechbrief.com (Ilse Varga)https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0705-multi-region-unaffectedhttps://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0705-multi-region-unaffectedCustomers who also run in Halden’s Oslo or Lisbon regions report that traffic shifted within minutes. Several said they had tested failover in the past quarter.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:05:00 GMTTomasz WronaHalden Cloud Frankfurt outagenewsroom@eurotechbrief.com (Tomasz Wrona)https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0652-status-pagehttps://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0652-status-pageThe provider’s status page moved all Frankfurt services to “major outage” at 06:31, nineteen minutes after the first customer reports.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:52:00 GMTLena HartwigHalden Cloud Frankfurt outagenewsroom@eurotechbrief.com (Lena Hartwig)https://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0640-following-livehttps://eurotechbrief.com/live/halden-frankfurt-outage/#update-0640-following-liveCustomers began reporting failures in Halden Cloud’s Frankfurt region shortly after 06:10 CET. Lena Hartwig is in Frankfurt; Tomasz Wrona is speaking to affected customers.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:40:00 GMTIlse VargaHalden Cloud Frankfurt outagenewsroom@eurotechbrief.com (Ilse Varga)