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Internet traffic between South Asia, the Gulf and parts of the Middle East slowed dramatically after multiple subsea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were damaged, forcing carriers and cloud providers to reroute traffic, prompting Microsoft Azure to warn customers of higher latency and exposing...
Microsoft’s Azure cloud briefly showed the limits of virtual resilience when several undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut on 6 September 2025, forcing traffic onto longer detours, producing higher-than-normal latency for cross‑region traffic, and triggering urgent...
Microsoft Azure customers experienced measurable slowdowns and higher-than-normal latency after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing cloud traffic onto longer, congested detours and exposing brittle physical chokepoints beneath modern cloud resilience...
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Microsoft Azure customers experienced measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer, often congested detours and exposing persistent structural vulnerabilities in the global internet backbone.
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Microsoft warned that Azure customers could see increased latency after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables were cut in the Red Sea, forcing emergency rerouting of traffic and exposing fragile single points in global cloud and internet infrastructure.
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A sudden cluster of undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea has forced Microsoft Azure and other cloud and carrier operators to reroute traffic, producing measurable latency and slower internet performance across parts of South Asia, the Gulf and beyond—an event that exposes how a handful of damaged...
A concentrated cluster of undersea cable failures in the Red Sea has throttled internet performance across South Asia and the Gulf, forcing cloud providers and carriers to reroute traffic and leaving businesses and consumers to contend with higher latency, intermittent packet loss, and slower...
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Microsoft warned customers that portions of Azure experienced higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut on September 6, 2025 — an event that forced international traffic onto longer, congested detours, produced localized slowdowns...
Microsoft Azure users experienced widespread performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing Microsoft to reroute traffic, warn of increased latency for routes through the Middle East, and reigniting urgent questions about cloud resilience...
Multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut in early September, producing widespread internet slowdowns across South Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe and prompting Microsoft to warn Azure customers that traffic routed through the affected corridor may experience...
Microsoft Azure users saw slower-than-normal responses after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were reported damaged, forcing traffic onto longer detours while Microsoft and carrier partners rerouted and rebalanced capacity to preserve reachability.
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Microsoft has warned customers that parts of Azure may show higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut on 6 September 2025, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and cloud operators reroute and rebalance capacity...
Microsoft’s Azure cloud experienced measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours and exposing how physical shipping lanes and seabed cables remain a critical, fragile layer beneath cloud-era resilience...
Microsoft Azure experienced measurable increases in network latency after multiple undersea fibre cuts were detected in the Red Sea, forcing cloud traffic between Asia, Europe and the Middle East onto alternate, longer paths and exposing brittle points in the world’s physical internet backbone...
Microsoft’s terse Service Health advisory on September 6, 2025 — warning that “network traffic traversing through the Middle East may experience increased latency due to undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea” — was the first public signal of a disruption that quickly rippled through global cloud...
Microsoft’s Azure cloud experienced measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours and producing higher‑than‑normal latency for customers whose data traversed the affected Middle East corridor...
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Internet traffic between Asia, the Middle East and Europe slowed to a crawl this week after multiple subsea fibre-optic cables in the Red Sea were severed, triggering widespread service degradation across India, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and parts of the Middle East — and forcing major...
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