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.

There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a helpful reminder that using a device reliant on connectivity to carry out a task that doesn't need connectivity is not a good idea.

If your Alexa device is blinking yellow, that means you have an unread message, and if it's flashing green, you have an incoming call.

Amazon unveiled its newest devices today. CNET was there, live and in person, experiencing the demos.