Red Sea Cables Cut: Microsoft gives update on Azure services

Microsoft has confirmed that it has resolved issues with its Azure cloud platform after multiple subsea cables in the Red Sea were cut. Earlier, the company warned that the cable cuts were causing increased latency and service disruptions for users in the Middle East and Asia. According to a report by the news agency Reuters, the world’s second-largest cloud provider after Amazon’s AWS rerouted traffic through alternate network paths to ensure that network traffic is not interrupted. Now, the tech giant’s service status page shows that all services are operational. The tech giant also noted that its engineering teams had worked to mitigate the situation and had since updated that Azure services in the Middle East are back online.

How the Red Sea Cables Cut affected Microsoft

In a previous statement to Reuters, Microsoft said, “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.”“Undersea fibre cuts can take time to repair; as such, we will continuously monitor, rebalance, and optimise routing to reduce customer impact in the meantime,” the company added.The cable cuts have affected internet connectivity in multiple countries, including India and Pakistan, according to network monitoring company NetBlocks. The outages are attributed to failures affecting the SMW4 and IMEWE cable systems near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.In a post shared on the social media site Mastodon, NetBlocks wrote: “A series of subsea cable outages in the Red Sea has degraded internet connectivity in multiple countries, including #Pakistan and #India; the incident is attributed to failures affecting the SMW4 and IMEWE cable systems near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.”“Meanwhile, similar internet disruptions have been observed on Etilasat and Du networks in the United Arab Emirates, resulting in slow speeds and intermittent access as engineers work to resolve the issue impacting multiple countries,” NetBlocks later updated.

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