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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
James Artaius

Amazon's Ring outage: what happened, will it happen again, and can you still trust Ring cameras?

Ring camera feed of a woman waving, being displayed on a phone.

On Tuesday this week, a multiple system outage on Amazon's cloud servers resulted in widespread outages to Ring doorbells, leaving users in the dark and worried about the security of their residences until the problem was resolved. 

For some, the Ring failures – which affected Ring.com, Ring Protect (Video Recording), Live Calls (Doorbell Dings & Motions), Video On Demand, and Partner Integration – only lasted a few hours, but for others it persisted long into the night. 

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