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Community members pointed to systemic outages as a critical flaw in the cloud-dependent architecture. Incidents such as the widespread AWS outage that disabled app features and notifications were documented as evidence of the risks associated with Whisker's design. These events reinforced community arguments for local control and offline operation, with users contending that the outages demonstrated how the appliances could become nonfunctional during connectivity problems due to the lack of an offline control option.<ref name="aws-outage">{{Cite web |date=22 Oct 2025 |title=AWS outage mess up anyone else's LR4's? |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/litterrobot/comments/1odkjar/aws_outage_mess_up_anyone_elses_lr4s/ |url-status=live |access-date=26 Jan 2026 |website=Reddit}}</ref><ref name="local-control">{{Cite web |date=21 Oct 2025 |title=The AWS outage proves how important local control is |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/litterrobot/comments/1ocey7m/the_aws_outage_proves_how_important_local_control/ |url-status=live |access-date=26 Jan 2026 |website=Reddit}}</ref><ref name="app-issues">{{Cite web |date=21 Oct 2025 |title=App / Inaccurate Notification Issues (maybe related to AWS outage, maybe not) |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/litterrobot/comments/1ocjebx/app_inaccurate_notification_issues_maybe_related/ |url-status=live |access-date=26 Jan 2026 |website=Reddit}}</ref><ref name="without-wifi">{{Cite web |date=23 Oct 2025 |title=Can I use lr5 without WiFi like I do my 4 |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/litterrobot/comments/1odvdlb/can_i_use_lr5_without_wifi_like_i_do_my_4/ |url-status=live |access-date=26 Jan 2026 |website=Reddit}}</ref><ref name="home-automation">{{Cite web |date=23 Oct 2025 |title=Access Litter Robot through Home Automation |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/litterrobot/comments/1oe5npz/access_litter_robot_through_home_automation/ |access-date=26 Jan 2026 |website=Reddit}}</ref>