"He also admitted that he didn't have control of his own home security system as thousands of websites went down around the world. Ring doorbell, which is also Ring Protect, their alarm system I actually have that. It went down and actually triggered our alarm system and then, of course, the call comes to disable that or call it a false alarm. That didn't work."
"We don't know, he said, adding: We know that it originated in the U.S. Or we know that's affecting the U.S. And that trickled down. So I can't tell you exactly what's at root here. We will find out. We're gonna continue to look into it. We have no indication that this is a cyberattack as of this moment. But, it is it does really emphasize and underscore how vulnerable we are as a country when we have so much of our basic services going through one tube that can be cut off like this."
A widespread Amazon Web Services outage caused thousands of websites and services to fail globally, impacting platforms including Snapchat, Ring cameras, Venmo, Fortnite and Roblox. The outage prevented users from controlling home security devices, with at least one Ring alarm triggering and failing to be disabled remotely. Observers and experts questioned whether the disruption resulted from a cyberattack or a technical fault, but no definitive evidence of malicious activity was reported at the time. The incident highlighted risks from centralizing critical services within a single cloud provider and prompted continued investigation while service largely recovered later the same day.
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