Confluent change history: Possible outage in AWS us-east-1

Confluent reported a major Confluent Cloud outage in AWS us-east-1; Kafka clusters could experience elevated latency, request timeouts, or increased error rates. It started at 2026-10-09 23:27 UTC and was resolved at 2026-10-10 00:23 UTC, lasting 56 min. All affected services recovered; no customer action was required, and the root cause remained under investigation with the provider.