Confluent incident

Elevated Kafka REST API Errors in AWS us-west-2

Resolved after 3 hours 52 minutes, affecting Confluent Cloud, on February 24, 2026.

identified Feb 25, 2026, 12:33 AM UTC

Issue has been identified and we are currently deploying the fix.

Started
Feb 24, 2026, 09:15 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 25, 2026, 01:07 AM UTC
Duration
3h 52m
Detected by Pingoru
Feb 24, 2026, 09:15 PM UTC

Affected components

Confluent Cloud

Update timeline

  1. investigating Feb 24, 2026, 09:15 PM UTC

    We are experiencing an elevated level of Kafka REST API Errors with error code 429 in AWS us-west-2 and are currently looking into the issue. This issue impacts Kafka eSKU clusters in this regions.

  2. investigating Feb 24, 2026, 09:16 PM UTC

    We are currently working on a mitigation.

  3. investigating Feb 24, 2026, 09:16 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  4. identified Feb 25, 2026, 12:33 AM UTC

    Issue has been identified and we are currently deploying the fix.

  5. resolved Feb 25, 2026, 01:07 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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