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Confluent · Data and observabilitySep 8, 2026, 09:17 UTC

Service Disruption affecting Authentication, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, and Flink in AWS us-east-1

MinorNot disclosedUpdated 17h ago
Sep 8, 09:17 UTCSep 9, 14:56 UTC
Duration
29h 39m
Impact
Minor
Root cause
Not disclosed
Confluent, 90 days
16 incidents
Affected
Confluent Cloud
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Final update

The systems have recovered and Confluent Cloud is fully operational.

Timeline

  1. Resolved · Sep 9, 14:56 UTC
    The systems have recovered and Confluent Cloud is fully operational.
  2. Monitoring · Sep 9, 06:41 UTC
    We have applied a mitigation for the issue affecting Schema Registry, Authentication, ksqlDB, Flink, and Kafka operations in AWS us-east-1. Services are recovering and we are monitoring closely.
  3. Identified · Sep 9, 01:45 UTC
    Confluent is continuing to work on the service disruption in AWS us-east-1. No immediate ETA for resolution is available.
  4. Identified · Sep 9, 00:01 UTC
    Confluent is continuing to work on remediating the service disruption in AWS us-east-1.
  5. Identified · Sep 8, 17:41 UTC
    We continue to work on remediating the service disruption in AWS us-east-1. Not confirmed ETA at this time.
  6. Identified · Sep 8, 15:55 UTC
    We continue to work on remediating the service disruption in AWS us-east-1. Confirmed impact: - Authentication , a subset of requests may fail - Schema Registry , authorization errors on a subset of requests - ksqlDB , a subset of queries/requests may be affected - Flink , statement management operations (create/update/delete) are degraded, and some running Flink jobs may fail or restart - Kafka operations (create, delete etc) Not impacted: Kafka cluster data-plane operations are not affected by this incident. This issue is isolated to the AWS us-east-1 region; other regions are unaffected
  7. Identified · Sep 8, 14:06 UTC
    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
  8. Investigating · Sep 8, 11:38 UTC
    We are currently investigating this issue.
  9. Identified · Sep 8, 10:37 UTC
    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
  10. Investigating · Sep 8, 09:17 UTC
    We are investigating a service disruption affecting multiple services in AWS us-east-1 region. Affected customers may experience authentication failures, errors accessing Schema Registry, or issues with KSQL and Flink workloads. We are actively investigating the root cause and working toward mitigation.

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