How Amazon Outage Left Smart Homes Not So Smart After All

[mystery-ak]

How Amazon Outage Left Smart Homes Not So Smart After All
Isabella Steger - Yesterday 10:55 PM

(Bloomberg) -- The outage at Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud-computing arm left thousands of people in the U.S. without working fridges, roombas and doorbells, highlighting just how reliant people have become on the company as the Internet of Things proliferates across homes.

The disruption, which began at about 10 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday, upended package deliveries, took down major streaming services, and prevented people from getting into Walt Disney Co.’s parks.

Affected Amazon services included the voice assistant Alexa and Ring smart-doorbell unit. Irate device users tweeted their frustrations to Ring’s official account, with many complaining that they spent time rebooting or reinstalling their apps and devices before finding out on Twitter that there was a general Amazon Web Services outage. Multiple Ring users even said they weren’t able to get into their homes without access to the phone app, which was down.

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[Kamaji]

IoT is going to be an epic disaster eventually.

[EdinVA]

As we have been told, those devices are not sending information back to the vendor, then why did they stop working simply because they could not communicate with their respective servers?
If they were in fact stand alone devices, they would continue working....  We are paying for big tech to spy on us...

[Free Vulcan]

It's really gonna do well in the New Left Green economy of intermittent power generation.