‘Smart’ Americans without a vacuum cleaner or doorbell to malfunction Amazon: ‘Really need it’ | Abroad

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage caused problems for Adobe and the Washington Post websites, but also caused numerous doorbells from multiple brands, including the well-known Ring, to stop working.

The outage affected a specific area in the United States.

“My f * cking doorbell isn’t working because AWS has problems,” tweeted an angry Ring user, quoted by the Daily Mail.

All kinds of tech sites have described the outage this week. AWS confirmed the problems on Twitter. Here and there the company met with derision. “I … I can’t vacuum because us-east-1 is out,” wrote the Chief Information Security Officer from LinkedIn on social media. His post received more than ten thousand likes and retweets. Another wrote: “Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I need to vacuum urgently.”

Yet another reported that his Christmas lights were no longer working.

Everything is now working again, but it is clear that the ‘smart’ houses have caused the necessary inconvenience. For example, someone with a digital doorbell reported that the device had registered all movements in front of the house, stored it, and then fired the notifications ‘all 70 at the same time’.

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