Microsoft's Cloud Services Disrupted by Red Sea Cable Cuts

An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC:
Microsoft's Azure cloud services have been disrupted by undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, the US tech giant says.
Users of Azure — one of the world's leading cloud computing platforms — would experience delays because of problems with internet traffic moving through the Middle East, the company said. Microsoft did not explain what might have caused the damage to the undersea cables, but added that it had been able to reroute traffic through other paths.

Over the weekend, there were reports suggesting that undersea cable cuts had affected the United Arab Emirates and some countries in Asia.... On Saturday, NetBlocks, an organisation that monitors internet access, said a series of undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea had affected internet services in several countries, including India and Pakistan.


'We do expect higher latency on some traffic that previously traversed through the Middle East,' Microsoft said in their status announcement — while stressing that traffic 'that does not traverse through the Middle East is not impacted'.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.