Microsoft, Linode, warn of cloud latency spikes due to Middle East submarine cable problems Microsoft has warned that customers of its Azure cloud may experience heightened latency due to a submarine cable outage in the Red Sea. According to an Azure status update, “Starting at 05:45 UTC on 06 September 2025, network traffic traversing through the Middle East may experience increased latency due to undersea fiber …
I'm a volunteer assessing a number of sites against an ISO standard. Several of them have Azure/Sharepoint hybrids. I'm not sure that any further slowing-down would be particularly noticeable for them. Maybe it is the products, or their implementation; but the rule seems to be "If the person knows where the document is, they can find it" - Otherwise, search times of minutes seem to be not infrequent. On a couple of occasions, the "document" has been emailed to me a few days after I have left the site...
