Confluent experienced a major incident on October 9, 2026 affecting Confluent Cloud, lasting 56m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Confluent Cloud
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 09, 2026, 11:27 PM UTC
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.
- monitoring Oct 09, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC
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.
- resolved Oct 10, 2026, 12:23 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved. All affected services have fully recovered.