Did you wake up to unresponsive Ring cameras on Monday? Join the club.
Amazon Web Services went on the fritz early Monday morning, and it took out a slew of online services with it—everything from Apple TV and Hulu to Reddit and Roblox.
Plenty of cloud-connect smart home devices got hit by the outage too, perhaps none so badly as Amazon’s own Ring and Blink cameras, many of which were rendered unresponsive by the glitch.
Down Detector shows huge spikes of problem reports for both Ring and Blink starting around 3 a.m. Eastern time. Alexa was also hit with downtime.
By 9 a.m. Eastern time, AWS appeared to be recovering , and I can now access my Ring Battery Doorbell Plus again.
But earlier this morning, my Ring doorbell was down for the count. Not only was I unable to see a live