During the early hours of Tuesday, Oct. 21, AWS went down. You’d think that would simply mean we couldn’t shop on Amazon or Woot in the middle of the night, but this is highly incorrect, as we all now know. The AWS outage took down what felt like half of the internet. WhatsApp, Snapchat, Venmo, Slack, banks, airlines, shipping networks, and trading platforms like Robinhood all went offline on a global scale.
Some folks were impacted by the AWS outage to the point of losing sleep. Yes, the spendy Eight Sleep Pod system operates via a WiFi connection only, and the brand uses Amazon’s cloud network to make that happen. Once AWS crashed, the Eight Sleep Pods lost connection to the mothership.
I’m in the process of testing the Eight Sleep Pod 5 for Mashable, the latest version of the Eight Sleep system. My full review isn’t out yet, but I was certainly one of the sad people who slept poorly due to the outage. While the experience was much better than other nights I’ve had (like sleeping on an airport floor), it wasn’t a great night, and getting my bed back online once AWS was back online took me hours.
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