{"id":407000,"date":"2025-09-08T05:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407000\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T05:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:05:13","slug":"microsoft-azure-services-disrupted-by-red-sea-cable-cuts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407000\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure services disrupted by Red Sea cable cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft’s Azure cloud services have been disrupted by undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, the US tech giant says.<\/p>\n

Users of Azure – one of the world’s leading cloud computing platforms – would experience delays because of problems with internet traffic moving through the Middle East, the company said.<\/p>\n

Microsoft did not explain what might have caused the damage to the undersea cables, but added that it had been able to reroute traffic through other paths. <\/p>\n

Over the weekend, there were reports suggesting that undersea cable cuts had affected the United Arab Emirates and some countries in Asia. <\/p>\n

Cables laid on the ocean floor transmit data between continents and are often described as the backbone of the internet. <\/p>\n

An update posted on the Microsoft website<\/a> on Saturday said that Azure traffic going through the Middle East “may experience increased latency due to undersea fibre cuts in the Red Sea”. <\/p>\n

It stressed that traffic “that does not traverse through the Middle East is not impacted”.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, NetBlocks, an organisation that monitors internet access, said a series of undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea had affected internet services in several countries, including India and Pakistan.<\/p>\n

The Pakistan Telecommunication Company said in a post on X that the cuts occurred in waters near the Saudi city of Jeddah and warned that internet services could be affected during peak hours. <\/p>\n

Undersea cables can be damaged by anchors dropped by ships, but have also, in the past, been deliberately targeted. <\/p>\n

In February 2024, several communications cables in the Red Sea were cut, affecting internet traffic between Asia and Europe. <\/p>\n

The incident happened about a month after Yemen’s internationally recognised government warned that the Iran-backed Houthi movement might sabotage the cables and attack ships on the Red Sea. The Houthis denied that they had targeted cables.<\/p>\n

In the Baltic Sea, a series of undersea cables and gas pipelines have been damaged in suspected attacks since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Swedish authorities seized a ship<\/a> suspected of damaging a cable running under the Baltic Sea to Latvia. Prosecutors said an initial investigation pointed to sabotage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft’s Azure cloud services have been disrupted by undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, the US tech…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-407000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115166938606855679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}