# Possible outage in AWS us-east-1

- Provider: [Confluent Cloud](https://down.guide/confluent)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 56m
- started 2026-10-09 23:27 UTC
- Confluent Cloud
- us, us-east-1
- id: DWN-340f0488d7
- Official page: https://stspg.io/57ltxrm4nnrr

## Root cause
> No action is required from customers at this point and we are monitoring and investigating further to understand the root cause with the provider.

[Postmortem](https://stspg.io/57ltxrm4nnrr)

## Updates from Confluent Cloud
### 2026-10-09 23:27 UTC: investigating
We are investigating an incident affecting services in the AWS us-east-1 region. Customers with Kafka clusters in this region may experience elevated latency, request timeouts, or increased error rates.

### 2026-10-09 23:43 UTC: monitoring
The observed elevated error rates seen in AWS us-east-1 have subsided and all services have recovered. No action is required from customers at this point and we are monitoring and investigating further to understand the root cause with the provider.

### 2026-10-10 00:23 UTC: resolved
This incident has been resolved. All affected services have fully recovered.

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