# Confluent: Elevated Kafka REST API Errors in AWS us-west-2

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-02-24 21:15 UTC · Resolved: 2026-02-25 01:07 UTC · Duration: 3.9 h
- Updates: 5 · Affected components: Confluent Cloud
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/7s19h1cl7zyl](https://stspg.io/7s19h1cl7zyl)
- [Company: Confluent](https://rewindex.com/company/confluent.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2026-02-24 21:15 UTC: We are experiencing an elevated level of Kafka REST API Errors with error code 429 in AWS us-west-2 and are currently looking into the issue. This issue impacts Kafka eSKU clusters in this regions.
- **investigating** 2026-02-24 21:16 UTC: We are currently working on a mitigation.
- **investigating** 2026-02-24 21:16 UTC: We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- **identified** 2026-02-25 00:33 UTC: Issue has been identified and we are currently deploying the fix.
- **resolved** 2026-02-25 01:07 UTC: This incident has been resolved.


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