Monitoring - 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
May 08, 2026 - 01:55 UTC
Investigating - 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.
May 08, 2026 - 01:14 UTC
Update - Per AWS, the me-south-1 region is now completely unavailable. Customers will not be able to access clusters in the me-south-1 region. Customers who have workloads in me-central-1 are strongly advised to relocate them to an alternative region.
Apr 02, 2026 - 15:40 UTC
Update - Provisioning new workloads in AWS me-central-1 and me-south-1 regions is disabled. Migration steps to other AWS regions have been communicated to impacted customers.
Apr 01, 2026 - 19:52 UTC
Monitoring - 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.
Mar 20, 2026 - 13:58 UTC
Welcome to Confluent Cloud's status page. Here you will find high level availability information for the Confluent Cloud managed service. Visit https://confluent.cloud to manage your Confluent Cloud clusters.
Update -
Starting May 13, 2026, TLS certificates used to connect to Confluent Cloud will start using new intermediate certificates provided by Let's Encrypt.
No downtime is expected.
No action is needed if you haven't pinned intermediate certificates. However, if you've pinned intermediate certificates, you need to update your clients' certificates before May 13th or remove the intermediate certificate pinning to avoid connection issues.
Scheduled -
Starting May 13, 2026, TLS certificates used to connect to Confluent Cloud will start using new intermediate certificates provided by Let's Encrypt.
No downtime is expected.
No action is needed if you haven't pinned intermediate certificates. However, if you've pinned intermediate certificates, you need to update your clients' certificates before May 13th or remove the intermediate certificate pinning to avoid connection issues.
Resolved -
The maintenance is complete.
May 7, 03:08 UTC
Monitoring -
Confluent Cloud is undergoing a planned maintenance event between 4pm and 8pm PST on May 6, 2026. Customers might experience intermittent unavailability of certain pages in the customer portal, such as new customer sign-up, cluster creation, promo code claims, invoicing and public cost interfaces.
May 6, 22:12 UTC