Confluent change history: Elevated error rates and latencies in Azure westus2 region

Confluent Cloud had a major outage with elevated errors and latencies in Azure westus2, linked to Azure network connectivity degradation. The incident ran from 2026-05-29 06:47 UTC to 2026-05-29 21:47 UTC (15 h 0 min), though Confluent reported symptoms beginning around 05:10 UTC. Azure’s degradation was mitigated and Confluent Cloud returned to normal.