Integreations to Google and Alexa down right now? (7 Dec 21)

[GSzabados (Gabor Szabados)]

@JDRoberts

Reports are that the various services and sites are slowly starting to come back. Some of mine are back, some are not. You should not have to do anything in most cases, it will just come back on its own as the service is restored from the Amazon side.

@JDRoberts, which AWS center was the issue? The same which caused the downtime the other 2 times as well?
You wrote about that maybe a year ago when a similar AWS issue happened.

I mean this one:

The Great IOT Cloud Outage of Nov 2020

The day before Thanksgiving, one of Amazon Web services server farms, the one in Virginia, started having problems and there were major outages over the next 36 hours. This affected a wide range of IOT customers. Alexa routines, of course. Ring. But also a lot of third-party customers who used those servers for at least some of their users. That included: Adobe Amazon Photos Amazon Alexa routines Arlo Hulu iRobot Lutron Login Services Rakuten Ring SmartThings Switchbot Twilio WeMo and many more. But not all of the customers for any of those companies. Just the ones whose accounts were handled by those particular servers. And only for the cloud-based features hosted on those servers. [image] The thing is… That same region went down two years ago. …