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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 confirmed that Azure continued to serve customer workloads after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, but the cloud giant warned of higher-than-normal latency for traffic routed between Asia and Europe as engineers rerouted and rebalanced traffic across...

Microsoft Azure customers across Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe experienced higher‑than‑normal latency and intermittent slowdowns after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while Microsoft and carriers rerouted and...

Microsoft’s Azure customers woke up to a new, uncomfortable reminder that the cloud — no matter how abstract it feels — still rides on ships, splices and seabed geography after the company warned that multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea had been cut, forcing traffic onto longer...

Microsoft warned customers that parts of Azure were 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 rerouted and rebalanced capacity to limit customer impact. Background...

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...

Microsoft warned that parts of the Azure cloud were experiencing higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer, more congested routes while carriers and Microsoft reroute and plan repairs. Background / Overview The...

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. Background The...

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’s Azure cloud is reporting elevated latency and patchy performance after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer, less direct routes while carriers and cloud operators reroute and rebalance capacity to limit customer impact. Background...

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. Background The global internet...

Microsoft has warned Azure customers they may see higher‑than‑normal latency and intermittent service degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and cloud operators reroute and prepare for repairs...

Microsoft's Azure cloud is reporting elevated latency and intermittent service slowdowns after a cluster of undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer, higher-latency routes while repairs and rerouting continue. Background The global internet runs on a web...

Microsoft confirmed that parts of its Azure cloud network 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 operators reroute and prepare repair operations. Background The global...

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...

Microsoft has acknowledged and begun rolling out a fix for a troubling Exchange Online regression that left some Outlook mobile users unable to send or receive mail — a problem traced to Hybrid Modern Authentication (HMA) and tracked inside the Microsoft 365 Admin Center as incident EX1137017...

On July 29, 2025, a sudden capacity shortfall in Microsoft Azure’s East US region prevented many customers from creating or starting virtual machines — an event that exposed a blunt reality: public cloud elasticity has practical, physical limits, and “infinite” capacity is a marketing...

Microsoft has confirmed an elevation-of-privilege flaw in Azure File Sync that can allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate privileges on systems running the service — a serious risk for hybrid infrastructures that bridge on‑premises Windows servers and Azure file storage. Public...

Microsoft is currently experiencing a significant outage affecting the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, rendering administrators unable to access essential management tools. This issue, which began on July 24, 2025, has persisted into the following day, marking the second such incident this week and...

On July 10, 2025, Microsoft faced a series of service disruptions affecting its Microsoft 365 suite, notably impacting Teams and Outlook. These outages disrupted communication and productivity for users worldwide, highlighting the critical dependence on Microsoft's cloud services. Initial Teams...