Major incident

Confluent Cloud: Possible outage in AWS us-east-1

Oct 9, 2026, 23:27 UTC
started
00:23 UTC
resolved October 10, 2026
56 min
duration

Affected: Confluent Cloud

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

Timeline

  1. Oct 9, 2026, 23:27 UTC
    investigating
    We are investigating an incident affecting services in the AWS us-east-1 region. Customers with Kafka clusters in this region may experience elevated latency, request timeouts, or increased error rates.
  2. Oct 9, 2026, 23:43 UTC
    monitoring
    The observed elevated error rates seen in AWS us-east-1 have subsided and all services have recovered. No action is required from customers at this point and we are monitoring and investigating further to understand the root cause with the provider.
  3. Oct 10, 2026, 00:23 UTC
    resolved
    This incident has been resolved. All affected services have fully recovered.

Updates as published by Confluent Cloud (original).

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