Red Sea cable cuts slow Azure traffic
Multiple undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea increased latency for Azure traffic between Asia, the Middle East and Europe while Microsoft rerouted capacity.
- Service
- Microsoft Azure (Red Sea cables)
- Date
- 6 September 2025
- Cause
- Physical damage / conflict
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- minor
- Region
- Global
- Source
- IncidentHub ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Red Sea cable cuts slow Azure traffic”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 6 Sep 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2025-09-06-microsoft-azure-red-sea-cables-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: IncidentHub, https://blog.incidenthub.cloud/major-cloud-outages-2025.
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