Late last night, GamesBeat reported that the cloud-save feature on Xbox Live was not working. It's functioning now, but the inconvenience still reverberates to this hour.
As a goodwill gesture, Microsoft is providing a free month of its Xbox Live Gold service to affected users.
"We will be automatically applying a one-month extension to the Xbox Live Gold memberships of everyone who was impacted," Xbox Live general manager Alex Garden said in a statement.