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