# Kafka cluster performance degradation for Basic and Standard clusters in AWS US-East-2

- Provider: [Confluent Cloud](https://down.guide/confluent)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Degraded
- lasted 2h 5m
- started 2026-06-21 07:14 UTC
- Confluent Cloud
- us, us-east-2
- id: DWN-bd83274339
- Official page: https://stspg.io/bnqhx8chtf8g

## Updates from Confluent Cloud
### 2026-06-21 07:14 UTC: identified
The team has identified the root cause of the issues affecting standard and basic Kafka clusters in the AWS us-east-2 region. We are actively working on a mitigation strategy and will provide further updates as they become available.

### 2026-06-21 08:31 UTC: monitoring
The team is now observing recovery. The team will continue to monitor the clusters to ensure full stability.

### 2026-06-21 09:19 UTC: monitoring
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

### 2026-06-21 09:19 UTC: resolved
This incident has been resolved.

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