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Microsoft’s surprise agreement with Nebius to supply large blocks of AI compute to Azure marks a strategic pivot: rather than racing to open more hyperscale data centers itself, Microsoft is contracting external “neocloud” capacity to close short-term gaps in U.S. availability while it...

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...

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...

Microsoft Azure users experienced widespread performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing Microsoft to reroute traffic, warn of increased latency for routes through the Middle East, and reigniting urgent questions about cloud resilience...

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 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...

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’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 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 has warned Azure customers that parts of its cloud 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 engineers reroute capacity and prepare repairs. (reuters.com)...

Microsoft has warned customers that Azure performance in and through the Middle East may be degraded after multiple undersea fibre-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic to be rerouted and raising fresh questions about the fragility of the global internet backbone and cloud...

Microsoft Azure users experienced elevated latency and disrupted connections after multiple undersea fibre-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut on September 6, 2025, forcing cloud traffic to be rerouted through longer, more congested paths and exposing fragilities in the global internet backbone...

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 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 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...

The NFL has moved from hardware sponsorship to an explicit “AI‑first” operational phase with Microsoft, refreshing the league’s Sideline Viewing System and rolling Microsoft Copilot, Azure OpenAI services, and a fleet of Surface Copilot+ devices into sideline workflows, scouting and Combine...

Secured Signing has embarked on a strategic partnership with Microsoft Azure, marking a significant milestone in its continuous journey to enhance cloud infrastructure and provide highly resilient, multi-region data center solutions. This alliance is set to bolster the security and performance...