Service Disruption affecting Authentication, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, and Flink in AWS us-east-1
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Confluent Cloud experienced a minor incident: Service Disruption affecting Authentication, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, and Flink in AWS us-east-1. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Sep 9, 2026.
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Monitoring
We have applied a mitigation for the issue affecting Schema Registry, Authentication, ksqlDB, Flink, and Kafka operations in AWS us-east-1. Services are recovering and we are monitoring closely.
Sep 9, 2026 at 6:41 AM UTC
Identified
Confluent is continuing to work on the service disruption in AWS us-east-1. No immediate ETA for resolution is available.
Sep 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM UTC
Identified
Confluent is continuing to work on remediating the service disruption in AWS us-east-1.
Sep 9, 2026 at 12:01 AM UTC
Identified
We continue to work on remediating the service disruption in AWS us-east-1. Not confirmed ETA at this time.
Sep 8, 2026 at 5:41 PM UTC
Identified
We continue to work on remediating the service disruption in AWS us-east-1.
Confirmed impact:
- Authentication — a subset of requests may fail
- Schema Registry — authorization errors on a subset of requests
- ksqlDB — a subset of queries/requests may be affected
- Flink — statement management operations (create/update/delete) are degraded, and some running Flink jobs may fail or restart
- Kafka operations (create, delete etc)
Not impacted: Kafka cluster data-plane operations are ...
Confirmed impact:
- Authentication — a subset of requests may fail
- Schema Registry — authorization errors on a subset of requests
- ksqlDB — a subset of queries/requests may be affected
- Flink — statement management operations (create/update/delete) are degraded, and some running Flink jobs may fail or restart
- Kafka operations (create, delete etc)
Not impacted: Kafka cluster data-plane operations are ...
Sep 8, 2026 at 3:55 PM UTC
Identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Sep 8, 2026 at 2:06 PM UTC
Investigating
We are currently investigating this issue.
Sep 8, 2026 at 11:38 AM UTC
Identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Sep 8, 2026 at 10:37 AM UTC
Investigating
We are investigating a service disruption affecting multiple services in AWS us-east-1 region. Affected customers may experience authentication failures, errors accessing Schema Registry, or issues with KSQL and Flink workloads. We are actively investigating the root cause and working toward mitigation.
Sep 8, 2026 at 9:17 AM UTC
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