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...
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...
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...
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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...
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 warning that Azure users could face increased latency after multiple subsea cables were reported "cut" in the Red Sea has thrust a quiet but critical piece of global infrastructure into the headlines: the fibre-optic arteries on the ocean floor that carry the world's internet...
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Multiple undersea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were severed in early September, producing widespread slowdowns for Internet users and measurable latency for cloud customers — a disruption that exposed how the physical backbone of the Internet can become a single point of failure for modern...
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 issued an urgent alert on Saturday after multiple undersea fibre-optic cables in the Red Sea were discovered cut, triggering increased latency for Azure customers and underscoring how fragile the physical backbone of the global internet remains.
Overview
The disruption — first detected...
Microsoft confirmed that parts of Azure are seeing higher‑than‑normal network latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and cloud engineers reroute, rebalance capacity, and schedule repairs. (reuters.com)...
Multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut on September 6, 2025, triggering widespread latency and connectivity problems for traffic between Asia, the Middle East and Europe and forcing cloud operators — most visibly Microsoft Azure — to reroute traffic while repair and...
Microsoft’s Azure customers woke up to a new, uncomfortable reminder that the cloud — no matter how abstract it feels — still rides on ships, splices and seabed geography after the company warned that multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea had been cut, forcing traffic onto longer...
Microsoft warned that parts of the Azure cloud were experiencing higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer, more congested routes while carriers and Microsoft reroute and plan repairs. (reuters.com)
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Microsoft’s Azure cloud is reporting higher‑than‑normal latency for traffic that traverses the Middle East after a cluster of undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing Azure to reroute traffic onto longer alternate paths while repair and traffic‑engineering work continue...
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)...