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Confluent: Major incident: Connectivity degradation - AWS us-east-1

Summary

Confluent Cloud reported a major connectivity disruption affecting Kafka clusters in AWS us-east-1, starting 2026-09-08 20:01 UTC and resolved 2026-09-09 13:01 UTC (reported duration: 16 h 59 min). A fix was implemented at 09-08 20:30 UTC; connectivity was reported fully operational at resolution.

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Major incidentLabel: degradation (model (Jev), 70%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io

What changed

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After: The issues is now resolved. Connectivity to AWS us-east-1 should be fully operational.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Connectivity degradation - AWS us-east-1 (this change)
Confluent Cloud reported a major connectivity disruption affecting Kafka clusters in AWS us-east-1, starting 2026-09-08 20:01 UTC and resolved 2026-09-09 13:01 UTC (reported duration: 16 h 59 min). A fix was implemented at 09-08 20:30 UTC; connectivity was reported fully operational at resolution.
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