Microsoft mentioned Saturday that purchasers of its Azure cloud platform may expertise elevated latency after a number of undersea cables have been minimize within the Pink Sea, as reported in Bloomberg.
In a standing replace, the corporate mentioned visitors going by 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 scale back buyer affect within the meantime,” the standing replace mentioned.
By Saturday night, Microsoft mentioned it was now not detecting any Azure points. Nevertheless it appears Azure was not the one service affected, with NetBlocks reporting that “a sequence of subsea cable outages within the Pink Sea has degraded web connectivity in a number of international locations” together with India and Pakistan.
In keeping with the Related Press, Yemen’s Houthi rebels had beforehand denied attacking cables as a part of a Pink Sea marketing campaign to stress Israel.
This put up has been up to date with further context about affected international locations and Houthi denials.
