A Massive Microsoft Azure Outage Is Taking Down Xbox And 365

Microsoft Azure, nan company’s unreality computing service, is experiencing an outage. The issues look to beryllium impacting Microsoft’s services that tally connected Azure, including Microsoft 365 and Xbox. 

Microsoft confirmed connected Azure’s position page that nan work is experiencing an outage that started astir 12PM ET:

Starting astatine astir 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing DNS issues resulting successful readiness degradation of immoderate services. Customers whitethorn acquisition issues accessing nan Azure Portal. We person taken action that is expected to reside nan portal entree issues present shortly. We are actively investigating nan underlying rumor and further mitigation actions. More accusation will beryllium provided wrong 60 minutes aliases sooner.

 At 12:25PM ET, Microsoft 365’s position account connected X said nan institution is investigating reports of issues accessing Microsoft 365 services and nan Microsoft 365 admin center,” without specifying nan circumstantial issue. The Verge reached retired to Microsoft pinch a petition for remark but didn’t instantly perceive back.

We’re investigating reports of issues accessing Microsoft 365 services and nan Microsoft 365 admin center. More specifications tin beryllium recovered successful nan Service Health Dashboard nether MO1181369.

— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) October 29, 2025

Reports of issues pinch Azure began spiking connected DownDetector astatine astir 12PM ET, coinciding pinch reports of an outage crossed Microsoft 365 and Xbox. It seems nan outage whitethorn beryllium global, arsenic immoderate Reddit users based in nan US and UK say they’re incapable to entree Azure’s portal arsenic well.

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