Microsoft mentioned Saturday that purchasers of its Azure cloud platform may expertise elevated latency after a number of undersea cables had been lower within the Pink Sea, as reported in Bloomberg.

In a standing replace, the corporate mentioned site visitors going by means of the Center East or ending in Asia or Europe had been affected. It didn’t say who had lower the cables or why.

“Undersea fiber cuts can take time to restore, as such we’ll constantly monitor, rebalance, and optimize routing to cut back buyer impression within the meantime,” the standing replace mentioned.

By Saturday night, Microsoft mentioned it was not detecting any Azure points. But it surely appears Azure was not the one service affected, with NetBlocks reporting that “a collection of subsea cable outages within the Pink Sea has degraded web connectivity in a number of nations” together with India and Pakistan.

Based on the Related Press, Yemen’s Houthi rebels had previously denied attacking cables as a part of a Pink Sea marketing campaign to strain Israel.

This publish has been up to date with extra context about affected nations and Houthi denials.