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 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 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)...
Just days after Microsoft’s June Patch Tuesday updates rolled out, system administrators across the globe found themselves embroiled in a scramble to diagnose and mitigate a new threat—not from cybercriminals, but from Redmond itself. Windows Server’s Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)...
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On June 12, 2025, a significant disruption affected major cloud service providers—Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Cloudflare—leading to widespread outages across numerous internet services. This incident underscores the critical role these platforms play in the...
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