"One of the standout casualties was EightSleep, the so-called smart mattress that learns your body, adjusts its temperature, tracks your sleep phases, and streams that data back to the cloud for a cool $200 a month. "My bed is stuck in Relax mode and won't change," moaned one user, while another admitted they were "sweating through my sheets because the app's dead." Another exasperated sleeper noted that EightSleep pumps out 16 GB of data a month - an impressive haul to generate while unconscious."
"Meanwhile, the automated litter box LitterRobot briefly forgot how to talk to its servers. "LitterRobot was my casualty this time," wrote one Redditor. "Thankfully it still worked, but couldn't monitor - which I had alerts set for anyway, so great functional test." The cats, at least, remained operational. Elsewhere, SwitchBot owners found their "robot fingers" had lost feeling, and users of Philips Hue bulbs, the supposed gold standard of smart lighting, were left in the dark."
A widespread AWS outage caused many popular apps and cloud-reliant gadgets to stop functioning, undermining routine comfort and monitoring. Services such as Snapchat and Signal experienced outages while smart devices like EightSleep mattresses, LitterRobot boxes, SwitchBot actuators, and Philips Hue lighting lost cloud-dependent features. EightSleep users reported beds stuck in Relax mode and excessive sweating, and the mattress reportedly transmits about 16 GB of data monthly for a high subscription price. LitterRobot temporarily lost monitoring capabilities but continued to operate, and engineers traced the incident to a DNS snafu as social media turned the event into an online spectacle.
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