# Confluent: Connection failures in a set of PNI Gateways for Kafka Clusters in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-2

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-05-22 00:21 UTC · Resolved: 2026-05-22 00:22 UTC · Duration: 1 min
- Updates: 2 · Affected components: Confluent Cloud
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/fy9tth9szn2n](https://stspg.io/fy9tth9szn2n)
- [Company: Confluent](https://rewindex.com/company/confluent.md)

## Summary

Confluent Cloud reported major connection failures in a set of PNI Gateways for Kafka Clusters in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-2, starting 20:26 UTC May 21, 2026. Confluent stated full mitigation by 23:56 UTC May 21, 2026, with service operating normally. The resolved incident record’s computed duration was 1 min. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2026-05-22 00:21 UTC: Starting 20:26 UTC May 21, 2026, Confluent Cloud experienced connection failures in a set of PNI Gateways for Kafka Clusters in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-2. We have fully mitigated the issue as of 23:56 UTC May 21, 2026 and service is operating normally.
- **resolved** 2026-05-22 00:22 UTC: The incident has been resolved.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-05-22 00:21 UTC: [Major incident: Connection failures in a set of PNI Gateways for Kafka Clusters in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-2](https://rewindex.com/change/i186efdad8aa186.md)


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