Outage in Confluent
Elevated error rates in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regions
Resolved MajorIncident Report
Summary AI Generated
Confluent Cloud services in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regions experienced elevated error rates and outages due to underlying AWS infrastructure failures in multiple availability zones. The me-south-1 region was restored within days, while me-central-1 experienced a complete outage that lasted significantly longer due to extended AWS regional recovery issues. The incident was fully resolved after approximately 17 days, with customers advised to consider regional failover options during the extended outage period.
We are experiencing increased error rates in some of our Confluent Cloud services in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regions. This began at approximately 05:00 AM UTC today and is linked to disruptions in AWS’s availability zones in these regions (mec1-az1, mec1-az3 and mes1-az2). Team is currently working on mitigating these and will provide updates as the situation evolves.
Components affected
Confluent CloudTrusted by 1,000+ teams
The Status Page Aggregator with Early Outage Detection
Stop finding out about outages from your users. Monitor 6,320+ cloud services and get alerted the second something breaks.
Start Free Trial
- No credit card
- 14-day trial
- 2-minute setup
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED
about 1 month ago - at 03/20/2026 12:55AM
This incident has been resolved.
MONITORING
about 2 months ago - at 03/03/2026 05:34AM
AWS regional recovery is expected to be extended in both me-central-1 and me-south-1 regions. Customers requiring immediate restoration in these two regions are encouraged to review regional failover options.
MONITORING
about 2 months ago - at 03/02/2026 03:37PM
Confluent Cloud services in AWS me-south-1 remain stable and operating normally following mitigation. We continue to monitor for any residual issues.
Confluent Cloud services in AWS me-central-1 continue to experience a complete outage due to the ongoing AWS regional infrastructure failure in that region.
MONITORING
about 2 months ago - at 03/02/2026 10:35AM
Confluent cloud services in AWS me-south-1 are mitigated. They are currently being monitored.
Confluent Cloud Services in AWS me-central-1 are still disrupted owing to regional outage at AWS.
INVESTIGATING
about 2 months ago - at 03/02/2026 08:32AM
Confluent Cloud services in AWS me-central-1 region are experiencing a major outage. They are linked to AWS's me-central-1 regional outage
Confluent Cloud services in AWS me-south-1 are being mitigated.
INVESTIGATING
about 2 months ago - at 03/02/2026 07:19AM
We are experiencing increased error rates in some of our Confluent Cloud services in AWS me-south-1 and me-central-1 regions. This began at approximately 05:00 AM UTC today and is linked to disruptions in AWS’s availability zones in these regions (mec1-az1, mec1-az3 and mes1-az2). Team is currently working on mitigating these and will provide updates as the situation evolves.
Latest Confluent outages
Metrics API was experiencing failures from 03:23 UTC to 03:58 UTC - about 1 month ago
Elevated Error Rates in AWS me-central-1 region - about 2 months ago
All new dedicated kafka cluster provisioning and expansion in Azure westus3, southcentralus, and eastus2 are failing - about 2 months ago
Network provisioning service in Azure East US region is degraded - about 2 months ago
The Status Page Aggregator with Early Outage Detection
With IsDown, you can monitor all your critical services' official status pages from one centralized dashboard and receive instant alerts the moment an outage is detected. Say goodbye to constantly checking multiple sites for updates and stay ahead of outages with IsDown.
Start free trialNo credit card required · Cancel anytime · 6320 services available
Integrations with
