Alexa has lost its voice as Amazon Web Services suffers widespread outage

While this is real and my company is being impacted by it, I'm a little less than thrilled that this guy's standard for journalism is "My Alexa timed out ergo AWS is down".

A lot of new media journalism is this type. How did x impact me? It seems to be good link bait, it's relatively easy to write and adds to the quota for the day's writing. It probably took him/her less than 1/2 an hour to write and did not have to deal with much research.

Quality journalism is hard to do when you constantly have to write stories. That's the result of always free journalism.

Guess I'll have to use the remote now to stop/pause/play my shows, that's all Alexa seems to understand.

New tech is very fragile in terms of reliability. The future is looking scary since we are replacing so much old tech which is way more reliable.

Awhile back a heard of a company that had put its patient monitoring software on AWS and were panicking when the service went down. We are all heading in that direction.

What was the outage?