AWS outage and the peril of Smart Things
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Some smart bed users were quite literally losing sleep over the massive AWS outage on Monday. Eight Sleep’s elevating, temperature-controlling mattress systems were temporarily knocked out of service by Amazon’s server issues, with users on Reddit and X reporting their smart beds were stuck at sweltering temperatures and uncomfortable incline positions. Even our senior reviewer, Victoria Song, woke up on Monday with an Eight Sleep Pod 4 stuck upright due to the outage.
The company’s “Pod” mattress toppers — which start at $2,000 depending on the model and size, alongside a monthly Autopilot subscription (starting at $17) to use the features — rely on cloud connectivity. An active internet connection is required to control temperature and elevation settings via the Eight Sleep app, and it previously didn’t provide a way to adjust features offline.
https://www.theverge.com/news/804289/eight-sleep-smart-bed-aws-outage-overheating-offline
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Reminds me of the time I went to a new client's house for a tuning. A new build, I guess a smart house? Anyway, to get the lights on in the piano room, she had to call her husband at work to control from his phone...
I do carry battery lights and am able to tune without power if needed.
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Reminds me of the time I went to a new client's house for a tuning. A new build, I guess a smart house? Anyway, to get the lights on in the piano room, she had to call her husband at work to control from his phone...
I do carry battery lights and am able to tune without power if needed.
@Rontuner said in AWS outage and the peril of Smart Things:
to get the lights on in the piano room, she had to call her husband at work to control from his phone...
Good grief!!
Nothing in our house is "smart" -- yet. I'm dreading dealing with it when it's time for something new, esp. something major like the HVAC system. Our current one has a programmable thermostat, but that's it, it's not connected to anything (other than itself).
The thought of having a bed malfunction because of an Amazon outage would make me go crazy.
Well, if nothing else, now everyone knows what AWS stands for. I learned about it some years ago when I learned that AWS was the underlying infrastructure of basically all of the internet pages of the uni where I worked at the time. I remember thinking it seemed like a bad idea to have a public uni so reliant on a company like Amazon.
When our course learning management system was down this week of over 12 hours, I was reminded of that...
