Confluent is investigating connectivity issues and elevated error rates affecting Confluent Cloud clusters hosted in Microsoft Azure's Southeast Asia region, beginning at approximately 03:13 UTC on 25 August 2026. The incident is classified as major impact. Affected customers may experience degraded produce/consume availability or intermittent connectivity for clusters in this region.
Confluent Cloud is a managed streaming platform based on Apache Kafka, widely used by enterprises for real-time data pipelines and event processing.
The disruption is associated with an ongoing Microsoft Azure service issue in Southeast Asia. Confluent said it is actively engaged with Microsoft to resolve the matter. The company has not yet provided a resolution timeline.
This is a developing story; we will update as new information becomes available.
