https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/06/ibm_cloud_provisioning_incident/

IBM’s cloud is having a bad day.

An incident that kicked off at 19:48 UTC on Thursday, July 5th, saw “long provisioning times [for virtual servers] … observed through monitoring systems,” leading to a warning to the effect that “At this time, customers may experience longer than normal times for provisioning new services.”