Current answer
Confluent Cloud experienced a major incident: Possible outage in AWS us-east-1. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Oct 10, 2026.
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Monitoring
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.
Oct 9, 2026 at 11:43 PM UTC
Investigating
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.
Oct 9, 2026 at 11:27 PM UTC
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