Confluent: Some Confluent Cloud customers accessing services in GCP us-south1 region might experience elevated errors rates

Impact: majorStatus: resolvedStarted 2026-02-25 05:01 UTCResolved 2026-02-27 18:16 UTC (3 d)6 updatesSource: stspg.io

Summary

Confluent reported a major incident involving elevated error rates for some Confluent Cloud customers in GCP us-south1, with single zone clusters in us-south1 Zone-a impacted. It started 2026-02-25 05:01 UTC and was resolved 2026-02-27 18:16 UTC, lasting 2 days 13 h. GCP identified the issue; a fix was implemented and monitored.

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Affected components: Confluent Cloud

Timeline of updates

investigating2026-02-25 05:01 UTC
We are currently investigating the issue
identified2026-02-25 12:02 UTC
GCP has identified the issue and is actively working on applying mitigation.
identified2026-02-26 01:11 UTC
At this time, single zone clusters in us-south1 Zone-a are impacted.
monitoring2026-02-26 17:41 UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results
monitoring2026-02-27 03:25 UTC
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
resolved2026-02-27 18:16 UTC
This incident has been resolved.

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Major incident: Some Confluent Cloud customers accessing services in GCP us-south1 region might experience elevated errors rates 2026-02-25 05:01 UTC

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