# Confluent: Major incident: All new dedicated kafka cluster provisioning and expansion in Azure westus3, southcentralus, and eastus2 are failing

**Summary:** Confluent reported a major Confluent Cloud outage affecting all new dedicated Kafka cluster provisioning and expansion in Azure westus3, southcentralus, and eastus2. It lasted 6 h 1 min, from 2026-02-26 19:56 UTC to 2026-02-27 01:57 UTC; the issue was identified, a fix was being implemented, and the incident was subsequently resolved. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2026-02-26 19:56 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/5h0sqqqyghn1](https://stspg.io/5h0sqqqyghn1)
- [Company: Confluent](https://rewindex.com/company/confluent.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:139/1l4y3vtr0jf8@c17f205dde17
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ All new dedicated kafka cluster provisioning and expansion in Azure westus3, southcentralus, and eastus2 are failing
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**2. Added: Impact**

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+ major
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**3. Added: Status**

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+ resolved
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**4. Added: Start time**

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+ 2026-02-26 19:56 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2026-02-27 01:57 UTC
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**6. Added: Affected components**

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+ Confluent Cloud
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**7. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-02-26 19:56 UTC

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+ Azure is investigating the issue and we will post an update soon.
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**8. Added: Update** (identified) · 2026-02-26 23:07 UTC

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+ The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
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**9. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2026-02-27 01:57 UTC

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+ This incident has been resolved.
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## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-02-26 19:56 UTC | Major incident: All new dedicated kafka cluster provisioning and expansion in Azure westus3, southcentralus, and eastus2 are failing (this change) | outage |

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