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

- Provider: [Confluent Cloud](https://down.guide/confluent)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Degraded
- lasted 3h 52m
- started 2026-02-24 21:15 UTC
- Confluent Cloud
- us, us-west-2
- id: DWN-848f48544e
- Official page: https://stspg.io/7s19h1cl7zyl

## Updates from Confluent Cloud
### 2026-02-24 21:15 UTC: investigating
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.

### 2026-02-24 21:16 UTC: investigating
We are currently working on a mitigation.

### 2026-02-24 21:16 UTC: investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.

### 2026-02-25 00:33 UTC: identified
Issue has been identified and we are currently deploying the fix.

### 2026-02-25 01:07 UTC: resolved
This incident has been resolved.

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