Confluent Cloud outage: Elevated error rates and latencies in Azure westus2 region

Affected components

• Confluent Cloud

1. resolvedMay 29, 2026, 21:47 UTC

   The Multi Service degradation on Azure has been mitigated. Confluent Cloud is operating normally.

2. monitoringMay 29, 2026, 16:49 UTC

   Confluent services in the Azure West US2 region are now healthy. We are continuing to monitor for residual effects as Azure continues to address their service outage. More details about the Multi Service degradation on the Azure status page: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status

3. monitoringMay 29, 2026, 10:25 UTC

   We are monitoring the health of impacted Confluent services in the Azure West US2 region. More details about the Multi Service degradation on the Azure status page: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status

4. investigatingMay 29, 2026, 06:47 UTC

   Confluent cloud services are experiencing outage in Azure West US2 region linked to Azure network connectivity degradation. Team is continuing active investigation.

5. investigatingMay 29, 2026, 05:57 UTC

   We are currently experiencing increased error rates and latencies in the Azure westus2 region. This began at approximately 5:10 AM UTC 29th May. Our team is actively investigating it.

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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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