Confluent incident

Kafka cluster performance degradation for clusters in AWS region eu-central-1

Resolved after 13 hours 41 minutes, affecting Confluent Cloud, on July 15, 2026.

resolved Jul 16, 2026, 01:14 PM UTC

The issue impacting the AWS eu-central-1 region has now been resolved. All clusters are fully operational and healthy.

Started
Jul 15, 2026, 11:33 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 16, 2026, 01:14 PM UTC
Duration
13h 41m
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 15, 2026, 11:33 PM UTC

Affected components

Confluent Cloud

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jul 15, 2026, 11:33 PM UTC

    Confluent is aware of the ongoing AWS incident affecting eu-central-1. We have identified degraded performance impacting clusters in this region, and our engineers are actively working with AWS to mitigate the issue.

  2. resolved Jul 16, 2026, 01:14 PM UTC

    The issue impacting the AWS eu-central-1 region has now been resolved. All clusters are fully operational and healthy.

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