Confluent change history: Connection failures in a set of PNI Gateways for Kafka Clusters in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-2

Confluent Cloud reported major connection failures in a set of PNI Gateways for Kafka Clusters in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-2, starting 20:26 UTC May 21, 2026. Confluent stated full mitigation by 23:56 UTC May 21, 2026, with service operating normally. The resolved incident record’s computed duration was 1 min.