A major disruption in Microsoft Corp.'s cloud services caused service disruptions to a number of businesses around the world, including in India, on Friday.

A number of airlines, including Indigo, Akasa Air, Air India Express and Spicejet have said that they were all facing technical glitches.

Globally too, a number of airlines and banks were hit by the service disruptions. The cause of the outage is still unclear, but many of those affected have linked the issue to Microsoft PC operating systems.

Indigo said that its systems “across the network” were impacted by the issue with Microsoft Azure, “which has resulted in increased wait times at our contact centers and airports”.