Confluent change history: Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1

Confluent Cloud reported a major incident affecting Kafka clusters in GCP us-west1, with elevated latency, request timeouts, and increased error rates. It started at 2026-08-20 17:10 UTC and was resolved at 2026-08-20 20:18 UTC, lasting 3 h 7 min. Confluent said the GCP issues were mitigated and monitoring showed no remaining impact.