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...
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...
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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...
Internet traffic between Asia, the Middle East and Europe slowed to a crawl this week after multiple subsea fibre-optic cables in the Red Sea were severed, triggering widespread service degradation across India, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and parts of the Middle East — and forcing major...
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Multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut on September 6, 2025, triggering widespread latency and connectivity problems for traffic between Asia, the Middle East and Europe and forcing cloud operators — most visibly Microsoft Azure — to reroute traffic while repair and...
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 Azure has warned customers of higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while Microsoft engineers reroute and rebalance capacity to limit user impact.
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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.
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ChatGPT users around the world woke up to blank responses and error messages on September 2–3, 2025, as OpenAI’s flagship chatbot experienced a partial outage that left thousands frustrated and underlined the operational risks of relying on a single AI provider for critical workflows...
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ChatGPT users around the world woke up to error messages and stalled replies as OpenAI’s flagship chatbot suffered a partial outage that left many unable to view responses in the web interface — an incident that again raises hard questions about reliability, vendor lock-in, and how to architect...
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When a single AI service becomes central to millions of workflows, a short outage stops more than casual conversation — it exposes systemic fragility and forces users to choose alternatives they may previously have ignored. Recent market shifts and intermittent service interruptions have pushed...
Cloud storage is convenient and often indispensable, but the recent run of high-profile account suspensions and provider errors makes one thing clear: putting all your important data into a single cloud vault is a recipe for avoidable heartbreak. Recent incidents involving locked OneDrive...
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