# All new dedicated kafka cluster provisioning and expansion in Azure westus3, southcentralus, and eastus2 are failing

- Provider: [Confluent Cloud](https://down.guide/confluent)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Partial outage
- lasted 6h 1m
- started 2026-02-26 19:56 UTC
- Confluent Cloud
- id: DWN-d7ef80b47e
- Official page: https://stspg.io/5h0sqqqyghn1

## Updates from Confluent Cloud
### 2026-02-26 19:56 UTC: investigating
Azure is investigating the issue and we will post an update soon.

### 2026-02-26 23:07 UTC: identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

### 2026-02-27 01:57 UTC: resolved
This incident has been resolved.

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