Microsoft's Azure cloud service is recovering from an outage that affected key apps and services like Microsoft 365 , Xbox and Minecraft. All three showed spikes in outage reports on DownDetector around 12PM ET, and the Azure status page indicates that Microsoft first observed technical issues around 12PM ET.In its most recent Azure status update at 3:57PM ET, Microsoft says that it initiated the deployment of our last known good configuration,'" and that customers may have begun to see initial signs of recovery." The company is continuing to reroute traffic through healthy nodes" and believes that Azure should be fully recovered by 23:20 UTC," or 6:20PM ET.At the peak of the outage, users on Reddit reported issues loading Game Pass on Xbox consoles, along with limited access to productivity and enterprise apps. The outage also appeared to affect Microsoft support pages and some airline websites.