Microsoft Reports Cuts to Cables in Red Sea

‘We do expect higher latency on some traffic that previously traversed through the Middle East,’ the company stated.

An undersea fiber-optic cable is attached to a rope at Arrietara Beach near the Spanish Basque village of Sopelana on June 13, 2017. Ander Gillenea /AFP via Getty Images

Microsoft stated on Sept. 6 that cuts to multiple undersea cables in the Red Sea were causing increased latency for users of its cloud computing platform, Microsoft Azure.

The cable cuts started affecting network traffic in the Middle East “at 05:45 UTC,” the company stated in a service update.