Microsoft’s Azure customers in and around the Middle East experienced measurable latency and service disruption after multiple undersea fibre-optic cables in the Red Sea were damaged, forcing traffic onto longer, more congested routes and exposing persistent fragilities in the global internet...
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...
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. (reuters.com)...
Internet traffic between Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe slowed sharply after multiple undersea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were severed on 6 September 2025, forcing cloud operators — most visibly Microsoft Azure — and regional carriers to reroute traffic, warn customers of...
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...
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...
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 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 Azure platform warned of higher-than-normal network latency for traffic traversing the Middle East after multiple undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea forced rerouting of international traffic beginning at 05:45 UTC on 6 September 2025. (backup.azure.status.microsoft, reuters.com)...
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...
Microsoft confirmed that parts of its Azure cloud footprint experienced noticeable disruptions after multiple undersea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing engineers to reroute traffic and apply emergency traffic‑engineering measures while carrier repairs were planned.
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Microsoft Azure customers experienced measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut on September 6, 2025, forcing transit traffic onto longer detours and producing higher-than-normal latency for flows that traverse the Middle East...
Microsoft’s Azure cloud experienced measurable slowdowns after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut on 6 September 2025, forcing traffic onto longer, congested detours and prompting Microsoft to reroute and rebalance traffic while carriers and cable operators plan...
Microsoft’s Azure customers experienced measurable performance degradation after several undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer, congested detours and prompting an urgent rerouting and capacity‑rebalancing operation by Microsoft and regional carriers...
Multiple undersea fibre-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut in early September, producing widespread internet slowdowns and raising fresh questions about the fragility of the global network that underpins cloud services, financial markets and everyday communication across Asia, the Middle East...
Microsoft’s cloud backbone entered a period of turbulence this weekend after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut, producing measurable latency for traffic between Asia, the Middle East and Europe and prompting Azure engineers to reroute and rebalance traffic...
Microsoft Azure warned customers of 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 rerouted traffic and prepared for complex maritime repairs. (reuters.com)
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