Major incident

Confluent Cloud: Elevated error rates in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regions

Affected: Confluent Cloud

Current status of Confluent Cloud: Operational — live Confluent Cloud status

Timeline

1. Mar 20, 2026, 13:58 UTC
   monitoring
   AWS regional recovery is expected to be extended in both me-central-1 and me-south-1 regions. Customers requiring immediate restoration in these two regions are encouraged to review regional failover options.
2. Apr 1, 2026, 19:52 UTC
   monitoring
   Provisioning new workloads in AWS me-central-1 and me-south-1 regions is disabled. Migration steps to other AWS regions have been communicated to impacted customers.
3. Apr 2, 2026, 15:40 UTC
   monitoring
   Per AWS, the me-south-1 region is now completely unavailable. Customers will not be able to access clusters in the me-south-1 region. Customers who have workloads in me-central-1 are strongly advised to relocate them to an alternative region.
4. Jul 16, 2026, 03:21 UTC
   resolved
   Resolved.

Updates as published by Confluent Cloud (original).