Ask HN: Is Alexa Down?

errcorrectcode · on Jan 31, 2022

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 · on Jan 31, 2022

It's been down for me for 2 hours.

errcorrectcode · on Jan 31, 2022

Okay, so I'm not hallucinating it.

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

ehayes · on Jan 31, 2022

Can confirm, down for hours.

blondin · on Jan 31, 2022

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

ehayes · on Jan 31, 2022

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.

geostyx · on Jan 31, 2022

Down for me in TX.

errcorrectcode · on Jan 31, 2022

Hey TX from ATX.

slater · on Jan 31, 2022

obligatory "everything is fine":

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

errcorrectcode · on Jan 31, 2022

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 · on Jan 31, 2022

Alexa isn't AWS though.