Microsoft says Azure affected after cables cut in the Red Sea

Microsoft mentioned Saturday that shoppers of its Azure cloud platform may expertise elevated latency after a number of undersea cables have been minimize within the Crimson Sea, as reported in Bloomberg.

In a standing replace, the corporate mentioned site visitors going via the Center East or ending in Asia or Europe had been affected. It didn’t say who had minimize the cables or why.

“Undersea fiber cuts can take time to restore, as such we’ll constantly monitor, rebalance, and optimize routing to cut back buyer influence within the meantime,” the standing replace mentioned.

By Saturday night, Microsoft mentioned it was not detecting any Azure points. However it appears Azure was not the one service affected, with NetBlocks reporting that “a sequence of subsea cable outages within the Crimson Sea has degraded web connectivity in a number of nations” together with India and Pakistan.

Based on the Related Press, Yemen’s Houthi rebels had previously denied attacking cables as a part of a Crimson Sea marketing campaign to strain Israel.

This submit has been up to date with further context about affected nations and Houthi denials.