Alexa; "A few things share the name lights. Which one did you want?"

An Alexa outage appears to have been my problem. Alexa commands for light groups were solid for weeks. Suddenly this morning any Echo in the house I used would state 'A few things share...Which one did you want?' After a couple of hours things are stable again.

What's more interesting is I've been having the issue where Alexa would trigger my light group on/off command correctly but then state it's not responding.

That also appears to have self-corrected (for now).