# Confluent Cloud: Elevated error rates in Azure East US

- Provider: [Confluent Cloud](https://outages.cc/confluent.md)
- Type: Incident
- State: Resolved
- Worst impact: Degraded performance
- Started: 2026-09-26 06:40 UTC
- Resolved: 2026-09-26 19:43 UTC (lasted 13 h 4 min)
- Components: Confluent Cloud
- Official update: https://stspg.io/4ks8n8bbt42z

## Updates from Confluent Cloud

### resolved, 2026-09-26 19:43 UTC

This incident has been resolved. All affected services have fully recovered, and no further customer impact is expected. No action is required from customers.

### identified, 2026-09-26 19:43 UTC

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

### identified, 2026-09-26 13:23 UTC

Systems are continuing to recover and are being monitored

### identified, 2026-09-26 08:00 UTC

Microsoft Azure has confirmed an outage impacting their Azure East US region, which is the root cause of the elevated error rates affecting Confluent services. Confluent will provide another update as soon as we receive further details.

### investigating, 2026-09-26 06:40 UTC

We are currently investigating an issue related to elevated error rates in Azure East US