Amazon's AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours

According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS ...
Tech Advisor on MSN

Is Amazon Alexa down? It’s probably not just you

If you’re wondering whether Amazon Alexa is down or if it’s just you, there’s an easy way to check. On the morning of 20 ...

Amazon Quietly Offloads Echo Show 8, Now Back to Black Friday’s Record Low

The Echo Show 8 combines an HD touchscreen, spatial audio and a built-in smart home hub to manage your connected devices, ...

I Regret to Inform You That the Amazon Echo Show Is Actually Pretty Cool

If Amazon introducing the Alexa Dot put us a step closer to the smart home future we were teased in that crazy Disney movie, ...
Ars Technica

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a clearer ...

Amazon's new Echo Dot Max is a smart speaker built for Alexa+

The Echo Dot Max is a $100 smart speaker designed to occupy every room in your home, complete with the usual smart home ...