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Microsoft warned that parts of its Azure cloud “may experience increased latency” after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while engineering teams reroute, rebalance and monitor affected flows. (reuters.com) Background /...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud is reporting elevated latency and patchy performance after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer, less direct routes while carriers and cloud operators reroute and rebalance capacity to limit customer impact. Background...

Microsoft Azure has warned customers of higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while Microsoft engineers reroute and rebalance capacity to limit user impact. (reuters.com) Background The global...

Microsoft confirmed that parts of its Azure cloud are experiencing higher-than-normal latency after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while engineers reroute and rebalance capacity to limit user impact. (reuters.com) Background The...

Microsoft's cloud networking teams are racing to contain higher-than-normal latency on Azure after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were damaged, forcing traffic through longer, less direct routes and exposing a fragile chokepoint in the global internet backbone. Background...

Microsoft warned Azure customers on September 6, 2025 that parts of its global cloud network are experiencing higher-than-normal latency and intermittent service degradation after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and...

Microsoft has warned Azure customers they may see elevated latency and intermittent service degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and cloud operators reroute and prepare for repairs. (reuters.com)...

Microsoft has warned Azure customers they may see higher‑than‑normal latency and intermittent service degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and cloud operators reroute and prepare for repairs...

Microsoft warned Azure customers that parts of its global cloud network are seeing higher-than-normal latency after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while engineers reroute and rebalance capacity. (reuters.com) Background The Red...

Microsoft's Azure cloud is reporting elevated latency and intermittent service slowdowns after a cluster of undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer, higher-latency routes while repairs and rerouting continue. (reuters.com) Background The global internet...

Microsoft confirmed that parts of its Azure cloud network are seeing higher-than-normal latency after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and cloud operators reroute and prepare repair operations. Background The global...

Microsoft confirmed that parts of its Azure cloud experienced increased latency and routing disruption after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were damaged, forcing traffic to be rerouted through longer, less direct paths and raising fresh questions about the fragility of...

Microsoft has warned that users of its Azure cloud may see higher-than-normal latency and intermittent disruptions after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while repair work and global rerouting continue. (reuters.com)...

Microsoft’s deal with the General Services Administration (GSA) to offer Microsoft 365 Copilot and broad Azure and Microsoft 365 discounts to federal agencies is one of the most consequential technology procurement moves in recent memory — a governmentwide push that promises major near‑term...

OpenAI’s decision to publish high‑quality, open‑weight language models has suddenly reframed its relationship with Microsoft — shifting what until recently felt like a settled strategic partnership into a contested terrain of contracts, cloud economics, and platform control. The company’s...

Microsoft’s recent narrative — that an AI-first Azure is building an unassailable moat while Windows 11 becomes an “AI platform” — is both materially true and rhetorically optimistic; the data underpinning the claim is strong, but the timeline and some headline figures in the popular bull case...

Microsoft’s AI team has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — a move that signals a deliberate strategic pivot from being primarily a host and integrator of external models toward building proprietary AI infrastructure optimized for Microsoft’s product...

Microsoft’s announcement that it has launched its own in-house AI models represents a strategic turning point: the company is no longer just a primary host and commercial partner for OpenAI — it is actively building the foundation for an independent, vertically integrated AI stack that could...

Microsoft has confirmed that Phase 2 of its mandatory multi‑factor authentication (MFA) enforcement for Azure will begin a tenant‑by‑tenant rollout this autumn, extending MFA requirements from portal sign‑ins down into the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) control plane and affecting command‑line...

Microsoft has confirmed a second phase of mandatory multifactor authentication (MFA) that extends enforcement from Azure’s web admin consoles into the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) control plane — covering Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, REST management APIs, mobile clients and...