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Confluent · Data and observabilityMay 8, 2026, 01:14 UTC

Elevated error rates and latency on produce and consume operations on AWS us-east-1 AZ4

MajorNot disclosedUpdated 15h ago
May 8, 01:14 UTCJun 4, 16:47 UTC
Duration
27d 15h
Impact
Major
Root cause
Not disclosed
Confluent, 90 days
16 incidents
Affected
Confluent Cloud
Status page

Final update

The incident has been resolved and us-east-1 (use1-az4) is fully operational.

Timeline

  1. Resolved · Jun 4, 16:47 UTC
    The incident has been resolved and us-east-1 (use1-az4) is fully operational.
  2. Monitoring · May 12, 18:51 UTC
    AWS has reported the underlying infrastructure issue in us-east-1 (use1-az4) as resolved. However, some Confluent Cloud customers in the affected availability zone continue to experience connectivity issues. Confluent is actively investigating and working to restore full connectivity for impacted customers.
  3. Monitoring · May 9, 13:19 UTC
    AWS has resolved the underlying infrastructure issue in us-east-1 (use1-az4). The majority of Confluent Cloud services have recovered and are operating normally. We are continuing to monitor for any lingering effects and verifying full service restoration.
  4. Monitoring · May 8, 01:55 UTC
    We are monitoring the health of impacted brokers in the affected availability zone. More details about the thermal event on the AWS status page: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
  5. Investigating · May 8, 01:14 UTC
    We are investigating data plane impact (produce/consume) resulting from elevated error rates and latencies from AWS us-east-1 resources in AZ4. EC2 instances hosted on this availability zone are impaired by loss of power during an ongoing thermal event.

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