(Reuters) -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
Subsea Cable Outages Disrupt Internet Connectivity in Asia and the Middle East
Impact of Subsea Cable Outages
(Reuters) - Internet connectivity in multiple countries including India and Pakistan has been affected due to subsea cable outages in the Red Sea, internet monitoring group Netblocks said.
Affected Regions
Similar internet disruptions were also observed on Etilasat and Du networks in the United Arab Emirates, Netblocks said.
Microsoft Azure Services
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the damage but Netblocks identified failures affecting cable systems near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Network Providers Affected
Microsoft on Saturday said that its Microsoft Azure users may experience increased latency due to multiple undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea.
The company said its users may experience service disruptions on traffic routes through the Middle East. Azure, the world's second largest cloud provider after Amazon's AWS, has rerouted traffic through alternative network paths and network traffic is not interrupted.
"We do expect higher latency on some traffic that previously traversed through the Middle East. Network traffic that does not traverse through the Middle East is not impacted," Microsoft said.
(Reporting by Harshita Meenaktshi and Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru, Editing by Franklin Paul and Christina Fincher)
