Confluent change history: Network provisioning service in Azure East US region is degraded

Confluent Cloud experienced a major network provisioning degradation in Azure East US: provisioning new networks could fail. It started at 2026-02-26 13:59 UTC and was resolved at 2026-02-26 22:24 UTC, lasting 8 h 24 min. Confluent reported implementing a fix at 02-26 22:23 UTC but did not state a cause.