What does this have to do with “the cloud?” If you want to make a washing machine robustly notify its user that it’s done, surely a message sent over the local

What does this have to do with “the cloud?” If you want to make a washing machine robustly notify its user that it’s done, surely a message sent over the local network or even Bluetooth is a better start. Anything involving the Internet is only useful when the user is outside the house, and there are more robust solutions to that than a server in us-east-1 that you hope the manufacturer keeps paying for.