There were more than 15,000 reports of Alexa outages on Sunday at 11 a.m. ET. ‘How do you turn on a lamp by hand again?’ one user wrote on Downdetector.com. By 12:30 p.m. ET, there were fewer ...

A widespread Amazon Web Services outage Friday prompted a more-quiet-than-usual Alexa as Amazon's personal assistant technology, which is housed on AWS servers, appears to have succumbed to the ...