# Confluent Cloud: Elevated error rates and latency in GCP us-west1

- Provider: [Confluent Cloud](https://outages.cc/confluent.md)
- Type: Incident
- State: Resolved
- Worst impact: Partial outage
- Started: 2026-08-20 17:10 UTC
- Resolved: 2026-08-20 20:18 UTC (lasted 3 h 8 min)
- Components: Confluent Cloud
- Official update: https://stspg.io/7s3xlkvbvy9x

## Updates from Confluent Cloud

### resolved, 2026-08-20 20:18 UTC

The GCP issues in us-west1 region have been mitigated. Confluent services are no longer seeing any impact based on our monitoring.

### investigating, 2026-08-20 19:18 UTC

We are seeing recovery of Confluent services and are continuing to monitor the situation. The next update will be posted within 1 hour.

### investigating, 2026-08-20 17:10 UTC

We are investigating an incident affecting services in the GCP us-west1 region. Customers with Kafka clusters in this region may experience elevated latency, request timeouts, or increased error rates. Our engineering teams are actively working to restore normal performance.