Confluent incident
Connection failures in a set of PNI Gateways for Kafka Clusters in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-2
Confluent experienced a major incident on May 22, 2026 affecting Confluent Cloud, lasting 1m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Confluent Cloud
Update timeline
- investigating May 22, 2026, 12:21 AM UTC
Starting 20:26 UTC May 21, 2026, Confluent Cloud experienced connection failures in a set of PNI Gateways for Kafka Clusters in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-2. We have fully mitigated the issue as of 23:56 UTC May 21, 2026 and service is operating normally.
- resolved May 22, 2026, 12:22 AM UTC
The incident has been resolved.