Blog from July, 2026

Dear all,

We would like to inform you about an upcoming scheduled maintenance window on the EUMETSAT side of the EWC on the legacy/old infrastructure. The maintenance will take place on 9 July 2026, from 07:00 to 12:00 UTC.

This intervention is required to perform network‑related maintenance on the legacy/old infrastructure. No service interruption is expected, and all existing virtual machines and services should continue to operate normally throughout the maintenance window.

While we do not anticipate user‑visible impact, there may be occasional periods of network slowness or dropped connections. Workflows that rely on long‑lasting or persistent network connections - such as data pipelines, large transfers, or streaming operations - may experience interruptions and should be monitored accordingly.

Our team and the cloud provider will be closely supervising the environment during the entire maintenance period.

For updates during the maintenance, please refer to the EWC service status page https://www.europeanweather.cloud/service-status.

As always, If you encounter any issues after switching to the new endpoint, please be in touch via https://chat.europeanweather.cloud or https://support.europeanweather.cloud

Best regards,

EWC Team at EUMETSAT

We are pleased to announce the availability of new updated images at both ECMWF and EUMETSAT for:

• Rocky Linux 8.10
• Rocky Linux 9.7 (replacing 9.6)
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

GPU images have also been updated, on both ECMWF and EUMETSAT sides.

You can already deploy the new images from Morpheus using the usual instance types, or in Openstack using the new image names. 
The details on these images are on this page: EWC Virtual Images Available

As always, if you need any support, please do get in touch with us on the European Weather Cloud Discussion Platform or through the Support Portal.

Kind regards,

The EWC Team