Confluent Cloud outage, 20 August 2026

Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1

Started
Resolved
20 Aug 2026, 20:18 UTC (after 3 h 7 min)
Impact
Major
Affected
Confluent Cloud

Last update from Confluent Cloud

The GCP issues in us-west1 region have been mitigated. Confluent services are no longer seeing any impact based on our monitoring.

20 Aug 2026, 20:18 UTC

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Other Confluent Cloud incidents

  1. Confluent Cloud Console (UI) degraded functionality

  2. Possible outage in AWS us-east-1

  3. Experiencing high error rate in AZURE in West Europe region

  4. Experiencing high error rate in AZURE in Germany West Central region

  5. Missing Metrics on Confluent Cloud

  6. Elevated error rates in Azure East US

  7. Confluent Cloud Console Degraded (All Regions) and Multiple Services Impacted in AWS us-west-2

  8. Elevated error rates in Azure Germany West Central region

All recorded Confluent Cloud incidents