Massive Microsoft Outage: Azure & 365 Crash, Teams, Xbox Down Worldwide
A major outage hit Microsoft’s cloud services on Oct. 29, 2025, taking down Azure, Microsoft 365, and Xbox Live for users worldwide starting around 9 AM Pacific. Downdetector logged over 16,000 Azure complaints and 9,000 for Microsoft 365. Microsoft confirmed the disruption and began deploying fixes. Businesses and consumers lost access to key apps, with widespread impact across multiple continents.