Confluent: Kafka cluster performance degradation for clusters in AWS region eu-central-1
Affected components: Confluent Cloud
Timeline of updates
- investigating
Confluent is aware of the ongoing AWS incident affecting eu-central-1. We have identified degraded performance impacting clusters in this region, and our engineers are actively working with AWS to mitigate the issue.
- resolved
The issue impacting the AWS eu-central-1 region has now been resolved. All clusters are fully operational and healthy.
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First version captured
In the 2026-10-17 checkpoint, timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert on . Record hash
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Cite this
Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by Confluent, started 2026-07-15 23:33 UTC, resolved after 14 h, 2 update(s).
- Title
- Kafka cluster performance degradation for clusters in AWS region eu-central-1
- Vendor
- Confluent
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/confluent/incidents/304kvs7xfg9w
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