# Confluent Cloud: Kafka - Increased latency and connectivity issues - Azure - brazilsouth

> Kafka on Confluent Cloud has increased latency and connectivity issues in the Azure brazilsouth region. Confluent Cloud reports that it is investigating the issue.

- Provider: [Confluent Cloud](https://outages.live/confluent.md)
- Type: Incident
- State: investigating
- Worst impact: Degraded performance
- Started: 2026-11-05 12:40 UTC
- Components: Confluent Cloud
- Official update: https://stspg.io/qf5spfnh1j8p

## Updates from Confluent Cloud

### investigating, 2026-11-05 12:42 UTC

We are continuing to investigate this issue.