Microsoft stated Saturday that shoppers of its Azure cloud platform would possibly expertise elevated latency after a number of undersea cables had been lower within the Pink Sea, as reported in Bloomberg.
In a standing replace, the corporate stated site visitors going by the Center East or ending in Asia or Europe had been affected. It didn’t say who had lower the cables or why.
“Undersea fiber cuts can take time to restore, as such we’ll repeatedly monitor, rebalance, and optimize routing to scale back buyer affect within the meantime,” the standing replace stated.
By Saturday night, Microsoft stated it was not detecting any Azure points.