# Confluent: Major incident: Confluent Cloud — Degraded inter-region connectivity — AWS us-west-2

**Summary:** Confluent Cloud reported major intermittent inter-region connectivity degradation affecting AWS us-west-2, causing delays or errors with Cluster Linking, Flink processing, and UI log access. Recorded start: 2026-06-12 07:42 UTC; the vendor later stated approximately 04:00 UTC. A mitigation was deployed; resolution was recorded at 2026-06-12 11:55 UTC, with a computed duration of 4 h 12 min. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: degradation (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2026-06-12 07:42 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://stspg.io/h0jlmdjmj2pj](https://stspg.io/h0jlmdjmj2pj)
- [Company: Confluent](https://rewindex.com/company/confluent.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:139/db4h28k730jz@ffd1deb5842c
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ Confluent Cloud — Degraded inter-region connectivity — AWS us-west-2
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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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+ 2026-06-12 07:42 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2026-06-12 11:55 UTC
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**6. Added: Affected components**

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+ Confluent Cloud
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**7. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-06-12 07:42 UTC

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+ We are investigating intermittent inter-region network connectivity issues affecting AWS us-west-2. Customers may experience delays or errors with Cluster Linking and Apache Flink processing for clusters in or communicating with this region. We are actively investigating the cause and working on mitigation.
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**8. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-06-12 09:11 UTC

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+ We continue to investigate intermittent inter-region network connectivity issues affecting AWS us-west-2. Customers may experience delays or errors with Cluster Linking, Flink processing and logs for clusters in or communicating with this region. We are actively investigating the cause and working on mitigation.
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**9. Added: Update** (monitoring) · 2026-06-12 09:53 UTC

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+ We have deployed a mitigation for the intermittent inter-region connectivity issues affecting AWS us-west-2, which began at approximately 04:00 UTC. Customers with clusters in or communicating with this region may have experienced delays or errors with Cluster Linking, Flink processing, and accessing logs in the Confluent Cloud UI. We are monitoring to confirm full restoration.
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**10. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2026-06-12 11:55 UTC

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

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-06-12 07:42 UTC | Major incident: Confluent Cloud — Degraded inter-region connectivity — AWS us-west-2 (this change) | degradation |

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