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Elevated Error Rates in AWS me-central-1 region

Partial outage Lasted 3h 57m · started · Confluent Cloud's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
Confluent Cloud
Regions
me-central-1
Down Index
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Updates from Confluent Cloud 4

  1. investigating

    We are experiencing increased error rates in some of our Confluent Cloud services in the AWS me-central-1 region. This began at approximately 12:51 PM UTC today and is linked to a disruption in one of AWS’s availability zones (mec1-az2). Our team is actively applying mitigation steps and will provide updates as the situation evolves.

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  2. identified

    We have identified the cause of the problem to be disruption in one of AWS’s availability zones (mec1-az2). We are taking steps to confirm the safest path to mitigation for any impacted Confluent Cloud services in this region.

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  3. monitoring

    The problem has been mitigated as of 21:15 PM UTC today. All Confluent Cloud services are now healthy in me-central-1 region and we will monitor for any residual issues before resolving this incident in 1 hour.

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  4. resolved

    This incident has been resolved. All Confluent Cloud services are now healthy in me-central-1 region.

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Questions about DWN-c1604a599a

Is Confluent Cloud still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-03-01 22:05 UTC. For Confluent Cloud's live state, see https://down.guide/confluent.

How long did it last?

3h 57m, from 2026-03-01 18:08 UTC to 2026-03-01 22:05 UTC, by the times Confluent Cloud posted.

What was affected?

Confluent Cloud named Confluent Cloud in me-central-1.

What caused it?

Confluent Cloud hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Confluent Cloud's official status page, https://status.confluent.cloud, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.