{"id":11825,"date":"2021-12-09T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11825"},"modified":"2021-12-18T19:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T02:25:36","slug":"im-sorry-im-afraid-i-dont-know-how-unlock-your-front-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/09\/im-sorry-im-afraid-i-dont-know-how-unlock-your-front-door\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m sorry, I&#8217;m afraid I don&#8217;t know how to unlock your front door."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-12-08\/amazon-outage-sparks-anger-as-fridges-stop-people-locked-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Bloomberg<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Amazon Outage Left Smart Homes Not So Smart After All<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Isabella Steger<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn11.bigcommerce.com\/s-2t0hhpc5ib\/images\/stencil\/608x608\/products\/2204\/4009\/d8890__86789.1583342566.jpg?c=1\" alt=\"Compx National D8890,Barrel Key, Antique Style\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outage at Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s cloud-computing arm left thousands of people in the U.S. without working fridges, roombas and doorbells, highlighting just how reliant people have become on the company as the Internet of Things proliferates across homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disruption, which began at about 10 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday, upended package deliveries, took down major streaming services, and prevented people from getting into Walt Disney Co.\u2019s parks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Affected Amazon services included the voice assistant Alexa and Ring smart-doorbell unit. Irate device users tweeted their frustrations to Ring\u2019s official account, with many complaining that they spent time rebooting or reinstalling their apps and devices before finding out on Twitter that there was a general Amazon Web Services outage. Multiple Ring users even said they weren\u2019t able to get into their homes without access to the phone app, which was down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-12-08\/amazon-outage-sparks-anger-as-fridges-stop-people-locked-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Bloomberg<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Bloomberg How Amazon Outage Left Smart Homes Not So Smart After All by Isabella Steger The outage at Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s cloud-computing arm left thousands of people in the U.S. without working fridges, roombas and doorbells, highlighting just how reliant people have become on the company as the Internet of Things proliferates across homes. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}