# Connection failures in a set of PNI Gateways for Kafka Clusters in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-2

- Provider: [Confluent Cloud](https://down.guide/providers/confluent)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 1m
- started 2026-05-22 00:21 UTC
- Confluent Cloud
- us, us-east-1, us-west-2
- id: DWN-67fbd2a734
- Official page: https://stspg.io/fy9tth9szn2n

## Updates from Confluent Cloud
### 2026-05-22 00:21 UTC: investigating
Starting 20:26 UTC May 21, 2026, Confluent Cloud experienced connection failures in a set of PNI Gateways for Kafka Clusters in AWS us-east-1 and us-west-2. We have fully mitigated the issue as of 23:56 UTC May 21, 2026 and service is operating normally.

### 2026-05-22 00:22 UTC: resolved
The incident has been resolved.

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