Sept 7 (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.

Similar internet disruptions were also observed on Etilasat

and Du networks in the United Arab Emirates, Netblocks said.

It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the

damage but Netblocks identified failures affecting cable systems

near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Microsoft ( MSFT ) 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 ( AMZN )

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 ( MSFT )

said.