Confluent Cloud outage: Elevated error rates in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regions

Affected components

• Confluent Cloud

1. resolvedJul 16, 2026, 03:21 UTC

   Resolved.

2. monitoringApr 2, 2026, 15:40 UTC

   Per AWS, the me-south-1 region is now completely unavailable. Customers will not be able to access clusters in the me-south-1 region. Customers who have workloads in me-central-1 are strongly advised to relocate them to an alternative region.

3. monitoringApr 1, 2026, 19:52 UTC

   Provisioning new workloads in AWS me-central-1 and me-south-1 regions is disabled. Migration steps to other AWS regions have been communicated to impacted customers.

4. monitoringMar 20, 2026, 13:58 UTC

   AWS regional recovery is expected to be extended in both me-central-1 and me-south-1 regions. Customers requiring immediate restoration in these two regions are encouraged to review regional failover options.

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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