Sept 6 (Reuters) - Microsoft ( MSFT ) 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 originating and

or terminating in Asia or Europe regions may experience

increased disruptions, the company said in a service health

status update for its Azure service.

"Undersea fiber cuts can take time to repair, as such we

will continuously monitor, rebalance, and optimize routing to

reduce customer impact in the meantime. We'll continue to

provide daily updates, or sooner if conditions change,"

Microsoft ( MSFT ) said.

As a result of the disruption, Azure, the world's second

largest cloud provider after Amazon's ( AMZN ) AWS, has rerouted

through alternate paths leading to higher-than-normal latencies.