Confluent Cloud experienced elevated error rates and latency on produce and consume operations in AWS us-east-1 AZ4 due to a thermal event that caused power loss to EC2 instances in that availability zone. The incident affected Confluent Cloud services for approximately 27 days, with some customers continuing to experience connectivity issues even after AWS reported the underlying infrastructure problem as resolved. The incident was fully resolved on June 4th, 2026, when us-east-1 AZ4 returned to full operational status.
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The incident has been resolved and us-east-1 (use1-az4) is fully operational.
AWS has reported the underlying infrastructure issue in us-east-1 (use1-az4) as resolved. However, some Confluent Cloud customers in the affected availability zone continue to experience connectivity issues.
Confluent is actively investigating and working to restore full connectivity for impacted customers.
AWS has resolved the underlying infrastructure issue in us-east-1 (use1-az4). The majority of Confluent Cloud services have recovered and are operating normally.
We are continuing to monitor for any lingering effects and verifying full service restoration.
We are monitoring the health of impacted brokers in the affected availability zone. More details about the thermal event on the AWS status page: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
We are investigating data plane impact (produce/consume) resulting from elevated error rates and latencies from AWS us-east-1 resources in AZ4. EC2 instances hosted on this availability zone are impaired by loss of power during an ongoing thermal event.
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