# Confluent: Flink job submission and job scale operations are affected in GCP asia-northeast1, europe-west8, europe-north1, southamerica-east1

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2025-12-02 21:37 UTC · Resolved: 2025-12-03 02:04 UTC · Duration: 4.5 h
- Updates: 5 · Affected components: Confluent Cloud
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/sdt032t2k043](https://stspg.io/sdt032t2k043)
- [Company: Confluent](https://rewindex.com/company/confluent.md)

## Summary

Confluent reported a major outage affecting Flink job submission and scaling in GCP asia-northeast1, europe-west8, europe-north1, and southamerica-east1, leaving jobs Pending or Stopping. Symptoms began 2025-12-02 19:53 UTC; the recorded incident started 2025-12-02 21:37 UTC and lasted 4 h 26 min. Fixes restored all affected regions; resolution was recorded at 2025-12-03 02:04 UTC. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Timeline of updates

- **investigating** 2025-12-02 21:37 UTC: This manifests itself in new Flink jobs remaining stuck in "Statement Status: Pending", existing Flink jobs being requested to stop remaining stuck in "Statement Status: Stopping". This issue started manifesting at 2025-12-02 19:53 UTC. We are currently investigating the issue and attempting to mitigate or provide a work-around.
- **identified** 2025-12-02 22:03 UTC: The root cause for the issue has been identified and the team is working on applying a mitigation.
- **identified** 2025-12-02 23:14 UTC: The team has successfully applied a fix to asia-northeast1 and we're seeing recovery there.  Meanwhile the team is applying mitigations in the other affected regions.
- **monitoring** 2025-12-03 01:32 UTC: A fix has been applied to all regions and we've seen recovery in all affected regions.  We'll continue to monitor for the next 30 minutes.
- **resolved** 2025-12-03 02:04 UTC: No further issues have been observed. The incident is now resolved as of 2025-1203 02:03 UTC.

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2025-12-02 21:37 UTC: [Major incident: Flink job submission and job scale operations are affected in GCP asia-northeast1, europe-west8, europe-north1, southamerica-east1](https://rewindex.com/change/i26d6183316ccab.md)


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