Internet disrupted across Asia and Middle East after Red Sea cable cuts

Internet in the Middle East and Asia has been disrupted after undersea cables were cut in the Red Sea, according to Microsoft .

Multiple countries, including India, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, have been affected by the outages, with users of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service experiencing higher latency.

“Undersea fibre cuts can take time to repair, as such we will continuously monitor, rebalance, and optimise routing to reduce customer impact in the meantime,” Microsoft said in a status update over the weekend.

Undersea cables carry vast amounts of the world’s internet traffic, including things like streaming services, banking transactions and military transmissions.

The high capacity and speed of the fibre optic cables make them more suitable and reliable than satellites, m