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Red Sea Severed Cables Knock 17% of Internet Offline: Azure Customers Brace for Months-Long Repair Delays
At 05:45 UTC on September 6, 2025, a cluster of submarine fiber-optic cables snaking along the seabed near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was severed, instantly choking off roughly 17 percent of the internet...
Red Sea Cable Failures Trigger Internet Slowdowns Across South Asia; Azure Warns of Higher Latency
Internet connectivity across South Asia and the Gulf region has been severely degraded following a cluster of undersea cable failures in the Red Sea, with cloud providers including Microsoft Azure...
Azure Latency Surges as Red Sea Cable Cuts Test Global Internet Backbone
At approximately 05:45 UTC on Saturday, September 6, 2025, multiple high-capacity undersea fiber-optic cables traversing the Red Sea were physically severed, crippling a critical artery of the global...
Microsoft: Azure Latency Surge as Red Sea Cables Cut, Traffic Rerouted
On September 6, 2025, Microsoft issued a service health advisory warning Azure customers that multiple undersea fiber-optic cable cuts in the Red Sea are causing increased latency and intermittent...