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Confluent Cloud outage: Possible outage in AWS us-east-1

Confluent Cloud reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Oct 9, 2026, 23:27 UTC. It has not been marked resolved yet.

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Oct 9, 2026, 23:27 UTC
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Affected components

  • Confluent Cloud

Timeline

updates from Confluent Cloud's status page ↗
  1. monitoringOct 9, 2026, 23:43 UTC

    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.

  2. investigatingOct 9, 2026, 23:27 UTC

    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.

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 16 incidents in the last 90 days, 11 of them major or critical. A typical incident lasted 4h 50m. See Confluent Cloud's uptime and incident history

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