Amazon had a fairly severe AWS outage on the East coast of the US today. I was wrapping gifts earlier and wanted some music in the background. My trusty Amazon Echo Dot was not able to fulfill any of my requests. I rebooted her. Even switched wifi networks. Nothing worked. Then I read it wasn’t just her…
Anyone else affected? How?
I’m a third party vendor, and am not receiving orders. They’ll come in when the issue is remedied.
I actually came here to tell people to wait to place orders, and I’m also hearing that Amazon is not the only affected vendor. Just be patient, and it will be resolved.
Canvas LMS is either completely down or loading exceedingly slowly for both students and instructors.
And it’s finals week for most term-system colleges.
But I don’t have any of my classes in Canvas! HAHAHAHA! Yo, all my colleagues who thought I was a troglodyte for using Google Classroom, who’s laughing now?!
Yeah, I just asked my Echo to play my news, and got “I’m having trouble playing your content right now.” I asked for a few other things and got the same response.
HALexa won’t do anything for me right now. It will neither open the pod bay doors nor turn on my lights. It does know what the time is, and the weather forecast.
Yes, that’s what I’m seeing.
Amazon’s main website appears to be working fine for me. Audible’s website is up, but the search function seems not to be working.
I work in IT. Pretty much everything I work with is down, and there’s nothing I can do about it except wait.
Also IMDB is down, has been since around 7am according to Downdetector. I assume the situations are related since IMDB belongs to Amazon.
I have possibly been affected. I am expecting an Amazon delivery today that hasn’t yet arrived.
I read someplace that some Disney Plus content is unavailable because of the outage. It’s really amazing how much is reliant on it.
Also, I ordered a microwave oven less than an hour ago but it still doesn’t show on my orders page and I haven’t received the email confirmation.
It’s since changed, but Netflix used to keep their movies there. I always thought it was funny that when you were watching a Netflix movie it was streaming from an Amazon server.
About four hours ago I asked Echo to turn on a light and got the response, “I am having trouble with the manufacturer right now. A report has been sent,” but no light. I turned it on using the (non-verbal) Gosund app in my phone just fine.
Likewise about 45 minutes ago I got a 507 error on IMDb trying to bring up Tatum O’Neal.
I agree that it was weird. Competitors at the same time that they depend on each other.
There are reports now that the Earth’s rotation has slowed 4%, and we may need to introduce a “leap hour” tomorrow to keep everything in sync.
I asked Alexa to turn on a lamp and got the same response as you. I then tried a different lamp in the same room, and that one turned on. 
Also, I never realized how much I use Amazon Music during the day. The strange thing is that I just said a song name without naming the artist, the Echo came back with the song name and artist, and then said that Amazon Music couldn’t be reached.
I’m not sure how much overlap there was though. On the one hand, I could see AWS telling Netflix to take a hike. On the other hand, money is money. Netflix is going to stream from somewhere, Amazon might as well grab the cash.
I asked for music this morning, Alexa said she couldn’t reach Amazon Music. I asked her what good she was?
That was pretty much it.
I placed an Amazon order more than two orders ago, same thing.
It brought down one of the research tools we use at our ad agency, but I had no real need to use it today.
Other than that, the biggest impact is that I can’t use my Echo to listen to music while I’m working.