Microsoft appears to be experiencing an outage affecting its Azure cloud services and related Microsoft 365 tools, with widespread reports of service degradation or downtime across multiple products (Azure, 365, Xbox, and other dependent services) on October 29, 2025. Microsoft acknowledged DNS-related issues as the root cause and has been working on restoration efforts, with status updates indicating gradual recovery as configurations were investigated and mitigations deployed. Wide-scale monitoring sites and major outlets reported the outage earlier in the day, and many services began to recover later as the DNS problems were addressed.