Confluent incident

Kafka cluster performance degradation for Basic and Standard clusters in AWS US-East-2

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

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.

Started
Jun 21, 2026, 07:14 AM UTC
Resolved
Jun 21, 2026, 09:19 AM UTC
Duration
2h 4m
Detected by Pingoru
Jun 21, 2026, 07:14 AM UTC

Affected components

Confluent Cloud

Update timeline

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. monitoring Jun 21, 2026, 09:19 AM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. resolved Jun 21, 2026, 09:19 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.