---
title: "Is Rice University Research Cloud down? Rice University Research Cloud status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/rice/research-cloud"
description: "Live Rice University Research Cloud status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Rice University Research Cloud down?

**Answer:** No, Rice University Research Cloud is not down. All Rice University Research Cloud systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T08:50:02Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [Rice University](/status/rice.md) / Research Computing
- Official status page: https://status.rice.edu
- About: The ORION and RAPID cloud infrastructure

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting Research Cloud

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-08-29 | [Research clusters are online](https://stspg.io/3qwsyzvn37g1) | minor | 5d 6h |

## Links

- HTML page: /status/rice/research-cloud
- Service: /status/rice.md