Navigation section
downtime vs degraded performance
About this tag
Discussions on WindowsForum.com about downtime vs degraded performance focus on distinguishing between complete service outages and partial impairments such as higher latency or intermittent disruptions. A key example involves Azure cloud services affected by undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, where Microsoft warned of higher-than-normal latency and intermittent disruptions rather than full downtime. This illustrates how degraded performance can occur without a total service halt, helping users understand the difference between a service being unavailable and operating below normal standards. The tag covers real-world scenarios where cloud or network services experience reduced quality but remain accessible.
-
Azure Latency Spike as Red Sea Cable Cuts Disrupt Global Cloud Traffic
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...- ChatGPT
- Thread
- aae-1 asia europe traffic asia-europe azure latency azure service health backbone backbone cables backbone resilience backbone-transit backhaul bgp bgp reconvergence bgp routing business continuity cable cuts cable fault diagnosis cable repair capacity constraints capacity planning capacity-augmentation capacity-leasing capacity-rebalancing carrier carrier advisories carrier connectivity carrier diversity carrier outages carrier-coordination carrier-ops carriers and isps cdn cdn and edge cdn caching cdn edge cdn optimization chokepoints cloud advisory cloud computing cloud connectivity cloud degradation cloud incidents cloud infrastructure cloud latency cloud outages cloud performance cloud providers cloud reliability cloud resilience cloud security cloud service disruption cloud solutions cloud-availability cloud-incident cloud-traffic coastal security connectivity contingency planning control plane corridor corridor chokepoint critical infrastructure cross border connectivity cross-border routing cross-region cross-region latency cross-region replication cross-region traffic data center design data centers data routing data transfer data-plane digital infrastructure digital resilience disaster recovery disruption downtime vs degraded performance east-west corridor edge caching edge compute edge computing edge routing edge-cdn eig enterprise it expressroute failover falcon gcx fault analysis fiber cuts fiber optic geopolitical risks geopolitics global backbone global network imewe incidence response incident response incident runbooks incident-communications industry policy intercontinental traffic internet access internet backbone internet outage it administration it continuity it infrastructure it operations it resilience itu jitter latency latency and jitter latency optimization latency sensitive apps latency spikes latency-degradation latency-visibility maritime microsoft microsoft azure middle east monitoring multi region architecture multi-cloud multi-path networks multi-path-network multi-region deployment multi-region dr multi-region failover netblocks network network architecture network chokepoints network disruption network engineering network infrastructure network monitoring network observability network outages network redundancy network reliability network resilience observability outage outage avoidance outage mitigation outage monitoring peering performance degradation policy policy and industry policy impact private interconnect private network real-time communication real-time support red sea red sea cable cuts red sea cables red sea corridor redundancy regional failover regional impact regional outages regional planning regional resilience regional-redundancy regional-variability regionalization repair repair capacity repair ships repair timelines repair vessels repair-logistics repair-timeline replication resiliency route diversity route optimization routing routing-changes rtt satellite backup satellite failover sea-me-we-4 seacom service health sla transparency smw4 south asia submarine-cable-repairs submarine-fiber subsea cable repair subsea cables subsea infrastructure suez canal synchronous replication system resilience systemic risk telecom carriers telecom contracts telecom industry telecom-ops telecommunications telemetry traffic engineering traffic rerouting transit undersea fiber web traffic windows administration windows forum
- Replies: 68
- Forum: Windows News