{"id":6764,"date":"2025-09-06T22:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/6764\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:05:07","slug":"microsoft-azure-cloud-computing-service-disrupted-red-sea-fiber-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/6764\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure cloud computing service disrupted Red Sea fiber cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MSFT\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> said on Saturday that its Microsoft Azure users may experience increased latency due to multiple undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic traversing through the Middle East originating and or terminating in Asia or Europe regions may experience increased disruptions, the company said in a service health status update for its Azure service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Undersea fiber cuts can take time to repair, as such we will continuously monitor, rebalance, and optimize routing to reduce customer impact in the meantime. We&#8217;ll continue to provide daily updates, or sooner if conditions change,&#8221; Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the disruption, Azure, the world&#8217;s second-largest cloud provider after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/AMZN\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon&#8217;s<\/a> AWS, has rerouted through alternate paths leading to higher-than-normal latencies.<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Microsoft said on Saturday that its Microsoft Azure users may experience&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5740,4562,138,553,371,5741,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-6764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-amazon-com-inc","9":"tag-breaking-news-technology","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-business-news","12":"tag-computing","13":"tag-microsoft-corp","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}