Major incident

Confluent Cloud: Connectivity degradation - AWS us-east-1

Affected: Confluent Cloud

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

Timeline

1. Sep 8, 2026, 20:01 UTC
   investigating
   We are investigating a service disruption affecting connectivity to Kafka clusters in AWS us-east-1.
2. Sep 8, 2026, 20:13 UTC
   investigating
   We are continuing to investigate this issue.
3. Sep 8, 2026, 20:20 UTC
   identified
   A possible root cause has been identified and the Confluent Cloud team is implementing a fix
4. Sep 8, 2026, 20:30 UTC
   monitoring
   A fix has been implemented and the team is monitoring recovery.
5. Sep 9, 2026, 13:01 UTC
   resolved
   The issues is now resolved. Connectivity to AWS us-east-1 should be fully operational.

Updates as published by Confluent Cloud (original).