Microsoft announced on Saturday that its Microsoft Azure users might experience increased latency due to multiple undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea.
In an updated status message for its Azure system, the company stated that its users may face service disruptions on traffic routes through the Middle East.
“We do expect higher latency on some traffic that previously traversed through the Middle East. Network traffic that does not traverse through the Middle East is not impacted. We’ll continue to provide daily updates, or sooner if conditions change,” Microsoft said.
Some e& and du users in the UAE reported outages between 6pm on Saturday, September 6, and 3am on Sunday, September 7, according to Downdetector. It is not clear whether the outages were caused by the cable cuts in the Red Sea.
As a result of the disruption, Azure, the world’s second-largest cloud provider after Amazon’s AWS, has rerouted traffic through alternate network paths, and network traffic is not interrupted.
