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Confluent Cloud outage: Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1

Confluent Cloud reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Aug 20, 2026, 17:10 UTC. It was resolved after 3h 8m.

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Aug 20, 2026, 17:10 UTC

started

Aug 20, 2026, 20:18 UTC

resolved

3h 8m

duration

Major

impact

Affected components

Confluent Cloud

Timeline

updates from Confluent Cloud's status page ↗

resolvedAug 20, 2026, 20:18 UTC
The GCP issues in us-west1 region have been mitigated. Confluent services are no longer seeing any impact based on our monitoring.
investigatingAug 20, 2026, 19:18 UTC
We are seeing recovery of Confluent services and are continuing to monitor the situation. The next update will be posted within 1 hour.
investigatingAug 20, 2026, 17:10 UTC
We are investigating an incident affecting services in the GCP us-west1 region. Customers with Kafka clusters in this region may experience elevated latency, request timeouts, or increased error rates. Our engineering teams are actively working to restore normal performance.

What APIStatus.watch saw

Our 5-minute checks didn't record a change in Confluent Cloud's overall status around this incident. Smaller or regional incidents often leave a provider's overall status green.

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