Ask HN: Is Alexa Down?

4 points by errcorrectcode 4y ago ↗ HN

All of my devices currently result in an immediate "Sorry, something went wrong."

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slater 4y ago ↗

obligatory "everything is fine":

https://status.aws.amazon.com/

errcorrectcode 4y ago ↗

Haha. That's hilarious because a little redditfu shows there's an outage.

Edit: That's for AWS, not Alexa. I wish they had a dashboard for Amazon proper's major service components. I'm not sure how real or phony such a dashboard would be for internal/external political/business reasons.

Aperocky 4y ago ↗

Alexa isn't AWS though.

errcorrectcode 4y ago ↗

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonecho/comments/sgocin/sorry_so...

Edit: Also there's currently a peak of user feedback at the following link, so it could be an outage

https://downdetector.com/status/amazon-alexa/

Edit 2: Working again, for this moment.

Edit 3: Broken again. ):

sidewinder 4y ago ↗

It's been down for me for 2 hours.

errcorrectcode 4y ago ↗

Okay, so I'm not hallucinating it.

This just in - it's up for me at this instant.

geostyx 4y ago ↗

Down for me in TX.

errcorrectcode 4y ago ↗

Hey TX from ATX.

ehayes 4y ago ↗

Can confirm, down for hours.

blondin 4y ago ↗

just curious as a non-user, is alexa being down for hours a big disruption to users?

ehayes 4y ago ↗

I have to get up and touch the wall to control my lights, which sucks. Seriously, though with small kids being able to do certain things without hands is pretty handy.