If you’re wondering whether Amazon Alexa is down or if it’s just you, there’s an easy way to check. On the morning of 20 October, starting at around 8am BST, complaints of an Alexa outage began to appear.

AWS offers a lot of useful features to clients, such as the ability for websites and apps to automatically scale compute and server capacity up and down as needed to handle ebbs a

The Amazon Echo is one of the most popular smart speakers on the market, with global sales of the device expected to climb to an estimated 130 million units by 2025. There's a lot to like about the voice-activated Echo and its virtual assistant, Alexa ...

The move from Amazon comes after CEO Andy Jassy warned during an earnings call in July that the company would increase Alexa+ advertising as more consumers engage with the voice assistant.

People who buy the Alexa+ devices announced today will have early access to Alexa+ out of the box. Amazon still hasn’t said when Alexa+ will be finalized, leaving a huge question mark around the more intriguing abilities that Amazon has previously demoed, like agentic AI features, and Alexa+’s effectiveness across devices.