When the Cloud Rains on Everyone's IoT Parade

Cloud outages disrupted a wide range of IoT and daily life, with outages to Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare and Azure illustrating how integral cloud services have become to connected devices. The AWS outage in mid-October lasted nearly 15 hours, triggering delays and disruptions that particularly affected products such as Ring and Alexa.

The piece notes that outages mounted over the past year, interrupting routines from finance and food delivery apps to travel systems, and left many people wondering why so much depends on being connected to the internet. According to Dark Reading, the outages show how cloud services control many areas of day-to-day life, prompting questions about resilience and secure infrastructure recovery. Arielle Waldman, the article’s author, published the piece on 31 December 2025.