An undersea fiber optic cable is attached to a rope at Arrietara beach near the Spanish Basque village of Sopelana on June 13, 2017. Ander Gillenea /AFP via Getty Images
Microsoft said on Saturday that cuts to multiple undersea cables in the Red Sea were causing increased latency for users of its cloud computing platform, Microsoft Azur.
The cable cuts are affecting network traffic in the Middle East, “starting at 05:45 UTC,” the company said in a service update.
