# Confluent: Elevated error rates in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regions

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-04-01 19:52 UTC · Resolved: 2026-07-16 03:21 UTC · Duration: 105 d
- Updates: 4 · Affected components: Confluent Cloud
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/mqw2yg36sy23](https://stspg.io/mqw2yg36sy23)
- [Company: Confluent](https://rewindex.com/company/confluent.md)

## Summary

Confluent Cloud’s major incident in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 started 2026-04-01 19:52 UTC and resolved 2026-07-16 03:21 UTC, lasting 105 days 7 h. New workload provisioning was disabled in both regions; me-south-1 became completely unavailable, preventing cluster access. Confluent communicated migration steps and advised relocating me-central-1 workloads to another region. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Timeline of updates

- **monitoring** 2026-03-20 13:58 UTC: AWS regional recovery is expected to be extended in both me-central-1 and me-south-1 regions. Customers requiring immediate restoration in these two regions are encouraged to review regional failover options.
- **monitoring** 2026-04-01 19:52 UTC: Provisioning new workloads in AWS me-central-1 and me-south-1 regions is disabled. Migration steps to other AWS regions have been communicated to impacted customers.
- **monitoring** 2026-04-02 15:40 UTC: Per AWS, the me-south-1 region is now completely unavailable. Customers will not be able to access clusters in the me-south-1 region. Customers who have workloads in me-central-1 are strongly advised to relocate them to an alternative region.
- **resolved** 2026-07-16 03:21 UTC: Resolved.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-04-01 19:52 UTC: [Major incident: Elevated error rates in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regions](https://rewindex.com/change/i79889a7b1550f7.md)


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