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Confluent Cloud outage: Connectivity degradation - AWS us-east-1

Confluent Cloud reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Sep 8, 2026, 20:01 UTC. It was resolved after 17h.

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Sep 8, 2026, 20:01 UTC
started
Sep 9, 2026, 13:01 UTC
resolved
17h
duration
Major
impact

Affected components

  • Confluent Cloud
  1. resolvedSep 9, 2026, 13:01 UTC

    The issues is now resolved. Connectivity to AWS us-east-1 should be fully operational.

  2. monitoringSep 8, 2026, 20:30 UTC

    A fix has been implemented and the team is monitoring recovery.

  3. identifiedSep 8, 2026, 20:20 UTC

    A possible root cause has been identified and the Confluent Cloud team is implementing a fix

  4. investigatingSep 8, 2026, 20:13 UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  5. investigatingSep 8, 2026, 20:01 UTC

    We are investigating a service disruption affecting connectivity to Kafka clusters in AWS us-east-1.

What APIStatus.watch saw

  • Sep 9, 2026, 06:45 UTCpartial outage → operational

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How often does Confluent Cloud have incidents?

Confluent Cloud reported 13 incidents in the last 90 days, 8 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 7h 3m. See Confluent Cloud's uptime and incident history

Confluent Cloud outage on Sep 8, 2026: Connectivity degradation - AWS us-east-1 · APIStatus.watch