Thank you for your patience during the Realms outage. If you were affected, please keep an eye on your inbox in-game; we’re sending something your way. We appreciate your understanding, and we are grateful that you are part of our community. - jp

Realms service should now be restored for all players! We apologize for the disruption in Realms service and appreciate your patience while we worked on a solution. -DK

We are still hard at work to bring Realms back online for all players. As of now roughly 70% of players should have access. As part of this work we have had to block traffic to Realms on 1.21.20 on all platforms other than Switch (until Switch gets the hotfix). -DK

The Realms team is still hard at work to restore the service globally. We appreciate your continued patience as we are doing everything we can to get you all playing on Realms again.-DK

After yesterday’s announcement that the Realms service was healthy again, we saw connectivity issues and latency increase. We have continued working around the clock to mitigate the issue, and are doing everything we can to get your Realms back up and running.-DK

The Realms service is back up and running globally. It has been running healthy for more than the last hour. You should be able to see, manage, and play on your Realms again. Thank you again for patience as we worked through the issues. -DK

The Realms team is working around the clock to resolve the Bedrock Realms service issues. We understand that many players are still unable to play on their Realms at this time. We want to get you all back playing on your Realms as soon as possible. -DK

We are still hard at work to improve the reliability of the Realms service. We are seeing the service recover for most players. Thank you again for your patience.

We are continuing to work on the reliability of the Realms service. We are aware that since our last update, the service has degraded. We appreciate continued patience as we work through the issue. -DK

The Realms service is up and running. There are still some latency issues that we are continuing to work on, but you should be able to see, manage, and play on your Realms again. We appreciate your patience. A client hotfix is on its way, which should further alleviate issues.-DK

We are aware of and have been continuing to work on the ongoing Realms service connection errors and long load times. A client hotfix will be on its way soon to help address the issue as well. -DK

The Realms service is starting to recover. You should now be able to see, manage, and play on your Realm. You may experience slightly longer than normal load times and/or occasional failures while we are recovering. Thank you for your patience as we continue working through this.

You may experience intermittent failures or slowdowns connecting to Realms. We are actively working to resolve this. -DK

You may experience some intermittent failures connecting to our services due to issues with Azure. - etanaratsastaja

You may experience some issues with our services as we’re currently doing some maintenance on our databases. This should be over in about 10 minutes.

We’re seeing things return to normal as our authentication services recover. - nab

There are currently some issues with Xbox Live affecting our authentication services. - etanaratsastaja

We’ve mitigated this issue, if you are still seeing this problem try restarting your launcher. If the issue persists please contact support at aka.ms/Minecraft-Support. - jhp