Confluent incident
Kafka cluster performance degradation for Basic and Standard clusters in AWS US-East-2
Confluent experienced a minor incident on June 21, 2026 affecting Confluent Cloud, lasting 2h 4m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Confluent Cloud
Update timeline
- identified Jun 21, 2026, 07:14 AM UTC
The team has identified the root cause of the issues affecting standard and basic Kafka clusters in the AWS us-east-2 region. We are actively working on a mitigation strategy and will provide further updates as they become available.
- monitoring Jun 21, 2026, 08:31 AM UTC
The team is now observing recovery. The team will continue to monitor the clusters to ensure full stability.
- monitoring Jun 21, 2026, 09:19 AM UTC
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- resolved Jun 21, 2026, 09:19 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.