On Saturday, Microsoft announced that users of its Microsoft Azure service may experience increased latency due to multiple undersea fiber optic cable outages in the Red Sea.
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In an Azure service update, the company stated that these disruptions could affect data traffic passing through the Middle East, particularly routes that originate or terminate in Asia or Europe.
Microsoft added:
"Repairs to undersea fiber cuts can take time, so we will continue monitoring routing paths, rebalancing, and optimizing them to minimize customer impact in the meantime. We’ll provide daily updates, or sooner if conditions change."
As a result of the outage, Azure—the world’s second-largest cloud service provider after Amazon Web Services—rerouted data through alternative paths, leading to higher-than-normal latency.
