Confluent change history: All new cluster creations in Azure westus3, southcentralus, and eastus2 are failing

Confluent reported a major outage preventing all new Confluent Cloud cluster creations in Azure westus3, southcentralus, and eastus2, with customer impact starting February 11, 2026 at 09:50 UTC. The recorded incident lasted 4 h 30 min and was resolved at 2026-02-12 02:45 UTC; Confluent identified the issue with Azure support and confirmed cluster creation was fixed.