Subj : Microsoft Azure services see major disruption after Red Sea cable
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Date : Mon Sep 08 2025 11:30:10

Microsoft Azure services see major disruption after Red Sea cables cut

Date:
Mon, 08 Sep 2025 10:27:00 +0000

Description:
Microsoft confirmed that traffic passing through the Middle East is now 
seeing some delays.

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internet traffic passing through the Red Sea has been hit following cable 
cutting Microsoft, NetBlocks and Linode all noted disruptions Ongoing 
tensions put cables at higher risk 

Multiple subsea fiber-optic cables have been cut in the Red Sea, disrupting 
internet connectivity across the region, Microsoft has confirmed . 

Confirmation of the incident comes after Azure cloud computing customers 
started noticing higher-than-usual latency on September 6, 2025, but 
Microsoft has already issued temporary fixes to avoid disruption as it sets 
out a longer-term path to restore. 

Traffic passing through the Middle East was primarily affected, including 
both connections to Asia and Europe  all other traffic globally remained 
unaffected. Microsoft confirms its Red Sea cable has been cut 

The party responsible for damaging the cable used by Mirosoft has not been 
confirmed, but other companies including NetBlocks and Linode have also 
flagged latency issues. Pakistans telecom authority also warned of 
disruptions. 

We do expect higher latency on some traffic that previously traversed through 
the Middle East, Microsoft confirmed, noting it would now have to pass 
through other regions. 

Undersea fiber cuts can take time to repair, as such we will continuously 
monitor, rebalance, and optimize routing to reduce customer impact in the 
meantime, Microsoft added. 

Tata Communications and Alcatel Submarine Networks, the companies behind two 
of the cables in the region, have not yet issued a comment on the outage. 

Yemens Minster of Information and Culture, Moammar al-Eryani, called the 
incident a wake-up call for the international community. 

It has becoming increasingly obvious that our subsea cable networks arent 
just important for global trade, but that theyre also prone to attacks amid 
ongoing and escalating geopolitical tensions. 

More broadly, earlier cable damage in February 2024 disrupted Asia-Europe 
traffic. Several cables and pipelines have also been damaged in the Baltic 
Sea since 2022 in attacks suspected to be related to Russias invasion of 
Ukraine. 

In the meantime, Microsofts traffic has been restored, albeit with 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-azure-services-see-major-disruption-af
ter-red-sea-cables-cut


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