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Microsoft Azure restores cloud services after problems with submarine cable in the Red Sea

The Azure service is no longer experiencing problems after cutting international cables in the Red Sea, Microsoft said.

Microsoft Corp. said Saturday it no longer sees any problems with its Azure cloud platform after several international cables in the Red Sea were cut. The Red Sea is a critical telecommunications route connecting Europe with Africa and Asia via Egypt. Repairing undersea cables in the area can be difficult, especially as Yemen’s Houthis continue to attack ships in the area, Bloomberg reported .

According to a status update posted online, the company previously said customers may experience increased latency, and that traffic that passes through the Middle East and originates or terminates in Asia or Europe was affected. Microsoft said its engineering teams are working to mitigate the situation. The statement did not specify how the cables were cut.

«Repairing the undersea fiber optic cable cuts may take some time, so we will continuously monitor, rebalance, and optimize routing to minimize the impact on customers in the meantime,» Microsoft previously said.

Bloomberg reminds that the Red Sea is a critical telecommunications route connecting Europe with Africa and Asia via Egypt. Repairing undersea cables in the area could prove difficult, especially given that Yemeni Houthis continue to attack ships in the area.