People can't vacuum or use their doorbell because Amazon's cloud servers are down

IIRC the AWS came about because Amazon needed the server capacity to handle Black Friday shopping, but it was mostly idling the rest of the year. So they figured, why not rent it out?

Sounds great in theory, until Black Friday rolls around again.

No one should use any IoT appliance. That shit is a waste of money, since once support ends you need to buy a new one. What a lovely scam,