If your connected home requires a round trip to the cloud to turn a light bulb on, that's a major fail. Yes, you may lose the ability to control your home via

If your connected home requires a round trip to the cloud to turn a light bulb on, that's a major fail. Yes, you may lose the ability to control your home via Alexa, but the core functions should all be managed locally. Even a phone app should be able to talk to items on your home network via WiFi, or directly via Bluetooth. This is also the place to make the obligatory point that any cloud service that isn't running in multiple AWS regions is not serious about being highly available. EDIT: FWIW, my home is wired with a fair amount of Insteon gear, which continues to work just fine if I unplug my router.