Poorly designed PCBs and enclosures that slowly cook the electrolytic capacitors within are a common failure scenario in general, but they seem especially prevalent in so-called Internet-of-Things ...
HaleHound-CYD is a multi-protocol offensive security toolkit built for the ESP32 "Cheap Yellow Display" (CYD) platform. Supports both the 2.8" (ESP32-2432S028) and 3.5" (ESP32-3248S035C) CYD boards.
The key thing to consider is whether engineers are architecting systems around specific AWS services that are not open source or relatively interchangeable. For example, Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis, ...