Microsoft announced on Saturday that its Microsoft Azure users may 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 users might face service disruptions on traffic routes that pass through the Middle East.
Internet Traffic Rerouted to Alternate Paths
“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. 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 to ensure network traffic is not interrupted.
