Submarine cable incident record
Red Sea cable incident — Confirmed — 2025-09-10
Microsoft reports elevated Azure latency after multiple Red Sea undersea cable cuts, with traffic rerouted.
Confirmed
- Public classification
- Confirmed
- Affected cable or system
- Confirmed regional incident; no cable was deterministically attributed
- Affected countries
- Not identified in the published evidence
- Region
- Red Sea
- Network state
- Network signal stale
- Physical state
- Physical fault confirmed by report
Lifecycle
- Occurred:
- Network record became stale: — physical state unchanged.
Original supporting evidence
Public-network measurements can support a Suspected record but cannot prove a physical cable fault or repair. Network recovery can result from rerouting and does not establish physical repair. Confirm operational decisions with the cable owner or carrier.