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Microsoft Azure customers across Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe saw increased latency and degraded performance after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut in early September, forcing traffic onto longer, congested detours and exposing persistent vulnerabilities...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were severed on September 6, 2025, forcing large volumes of traffic onto longer, congested routes and exposing brittle points in the global internet backbone...

Microsoft Azure customers across Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe experienced measurable latency and intermittent slowdowns after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut on September 6, 2025, forcing cloud traffic onto longer detours while Microsoft and...

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 felt the ripple effects of a string of undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea on September 6, 2025, as traffic carrying vital Asia–Europe and Middle East connections was forced onto longer, more congested routes — a stark reminder that even the largest cloud platforms remain...

Internet traffic between South Asia, the Gulf and parts of the Middle East slowed dramatically after multiple subsea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were damaged, forcing carriers and cloud providers to reroute traffic, prompting Microsoft Azure to warn customers of higher latency and exposing...

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. Background...

Microsoft Azure customers experienced measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer, often congested detours and exposing persistent structural vulnerabilities in the global internet backbone. Background /...

Microsoft warned that Azure customers could see increased latency after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables were cut in the Red Sea, forcing emergency rerouting of traffic and exposing fragile single points in global cloud and internet infrastructure. Background The disruption began on...

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...

Internet traffic between Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe slowed sharply after multiple undersea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were severed on 6 September 2025, forcing cloud operators — most visibly Microsoft Azure — and regional carriers to reroute traffic, warn customers of...

Microsoft warned customers that portions of Azure experienced higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut on September 6, 2025 — an event that forced international traffic onto longer, congested detours, produced localized slowdowns...

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...

Internet traffic between Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe slowed sharply after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing carriers and cloud operators to reroute traffic and warning users — most visibly Microsoft Azure customers — that they could see higher...

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 has warned customers that parts of Azure may show higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut on 6 September 2025, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and cloud operators reroute and rebalance capacity...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud experienced measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours and exposing how physical shipping lanes and seabed cables remain a critical, fragile layer beneath cloud-era 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...