Multiple Undersea Cable Cuts and We're Still OK
In London, or from London, accessing the site and fetching whole pages takes about a tenth of a second, sometimes a lot less. From Manchester it takes about a fifth of a second and from Japan it can take a second or two, depending on various factors.
At the moment the "clown computing" bubble is bursting a bit [1,2] and it has not much impact on us:
The site is accessible, still, and it doesn't take like 10 seconds to reach it (from Australia). Many routing paths lead back to London.
Checking site traffic, the "multiple undersea cable cuts" don't have visible impact on us. In the past 2 days we at Techrights served about 1.3 million Web requests and in recent hours that pace didn't change.
Depending on how "clown computing" is structured (depending on its provider), the impact of the cable cuts can be severe. Microsoft customers experience problems. █
Related/contextual items from the news:
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Microsoft Says Azure Users May See Disruption After Fibre Cuts In Red Sea
Microsoft said on Saturday that its Microsoft Azure users may experience increased latency due to multiple undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea.
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.
“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’ll continue to provide daily updates, or sooner if conditions change,” Microsoft said.
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Multiple undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, hampering internet performance — international cables connecting Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are compromised
Microsoft was forced to reroute Azure traffic on Saturday, September 6, after two major submarine cable systems were severed in the Red Sea, triggering latency spikes and degraded performance for cloud users across South Asia and the Gulf. The company confirmed the disruption via Azure system status messages just before 06:00 UTC, saying customers whose traffic normally passes through the Middle East “may experience service disruptions.”
Those reroutes currently remain in effect, with Microsoft noting that they expect “higher latency on some traffic” into September 7 as regional carriers continue to triage routes. Cloud operations outside the affected path remain unaffected, but workloads relying on Asia-Europe connectivity may still feel the impact.