cloud resilience

Microsoft Azure users and large swathes of internet users across Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe experienced measurable slowdowns and elevated latency after multiple undersea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut on September 6, 2025, forcing cloud and carrier engineers to reroute...

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 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. Background...

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 confirmed that parts of its Azure cloud experienced higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours and exposing a brittle chokepoint in the global internet backbone. Background The global internet —...

Microsoft confirmed on September 6 that multiple undersea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, and warned Azure customers that traffic which “previously traversed through the Middle East” may experience increased latency as packets are rerouted across longer, often congested alternatives...

Microsoft’s Azure engineers told customers to expect higher latency after multiple international subsea cables in the Red Sea were cut, then updated their status to show no active Azure platform issues — a rapid swing that highlights both the resilience of modern cloud routing and the fragility...

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. Background / Overview The global...

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. Background The...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud experienced measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic to detour around the damaged corridor and producing higher‑than‑normal latency for flows that traverse the Middle East between Asia and...

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide experienced elevated latency and intermittent slowdowns after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were damaged, forcing traffic onto longer detours while Microsoft rerouted and rebalanced network flows and coordinated with carriers and cable...

Microsoft says most Azure services continued operating, but customers experienced higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple international submarine fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were severed, forcing traffic onto longer alternative routes while carriers and cloud engineers rerouted...

Microsoft has warned Azure customers they may see higher-than-normal latency and intermittent slowdowns 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 customer impact. 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 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. Background The Red...

Disaster recovery in the Microsoft 365 universe often conjures images of cloud-to-cloud backups, tiered failover architectures, and storage redundancy. But for experts with decades in the trenches, data durability starts much closer to home—with identity itself. As John O’Neill Sr. and Dave...

Disaster resilience in the cloud era is often painted as a technical sprint towards ever-better backups, clever failovers, and bulletproof storage replication. But beneath the shiny surface of business continuity lies a quieter, sometimes overlooked foundational truth: identity is the keystone...

Microsoft 365, the backbone of productivity for much of the modern business world, continues to face the relentless pressure of delivering always-on, global cloud services at scale. Yet, recent events underscore the inherent fragility of even the most robust platforms, as an ongoing outage has...

In a move that has sent ripples across the artificial intelligence and cloud computing sectors, Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced his company’s “very excited” stance on the newly inked partnership between Google Cloud and OpenAI. The public confirmation, which comes on the heels of...

For years, the landscape of artificial intelligence infrastructure has been defined by intense competition and strategic partnerships among the world’s largest tech giants. OpenAI, the pioneering company behind ChatGPT, has long relied on Microsoft Azure’s sprawling cloud ecosystem to deliver...