ChangesConfluentMultiple Confluent Cloud services are in a degraded state - GCP EU-West2
Confluent: Major incident: Multiple Confluent Cloud services are in a degraded state - GCP EU-West2
Multiple Confluent Cloud services were degraded in GCP EU-West2, with major impact; some customers could experience service issues. The incident began at 2026-10-20 08:02 UTC and remained open when archived, open for 0 min at the last update. Confluent was investigating and attributed the disruption to ongoing GCP EU-West2 issues.
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Google Cloud europe-west2 outage, Oct 20, 2026 · 19 vendors, 19 incidents
Confluent’s incident blames Google Cloud as the cause. (hop 1, posted +8 h 39 min vs Google Cloud’s own post)
“…Multiple Confluent Cloud services are in a degraded state - GCP EU-West2 This incident is resolved as of 18:15 UTC on October 20. Confluent Cloud in GCP EU-West2 region is operating normally. Some cus…”
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History of this incident
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4 incident changes
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Multiple Confluent Cloud services are in a degraded state - GCP EU-West2this change
Multiple Confluent Cloud services were degraded in GCP EU-West2, with major impact; some customers could experience service issues. The incident began at 2026-10-20 08:02 UTC and remained open when archived, open for 0 min at the last update. Confluent was investigating and attributed the disruption to ongoing GCP EU-West2 issues.
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