Outage in Confluent

All new dedicated kafka cluster provisioning and expansion in Azure westus3, southcentralus, and eastus2 are failing

Resolved Major

February 26, 2026 - Started about 2 months ago - Lasted about 6 hours
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Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

Confluent Cloud experienced a major outage where all new dedicated Kafka cluster provisioning and expansion operations failed in Azure regions westus3, southcentralus, and eastus2. The issue was caused by an underlying Azure infrastructure problem that prevented new cluster deployments and scaling operations. The incident was resolved after 6 hours once Azure identified and implemented a fix for the underlying infrastructure issue.

Azure is investigating the issue and we will post an update soon.

Components affected

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

RESOLVED about 2 months ago - at 02/27/2026 01:57AM

This incident has been resolved.

IDENTIFIED about 2 months ago - at 02/26/2026 11:07PM

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 02/26/2026 07:56PM

Azure is investigating the issue and we will post an update soon.

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