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Smart Beds Helped Them Sleep on a Cloud. Then the Cloud Crashed

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/business/amazon-aws-outage-eight-sleep-mattress.html
15•Animats•2h ago

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jdenning•31m ago
https://archive.is/fNNCg
1shooner•10m ago
>“I still plan to continue to use it,” he said. “The main friction point is, really, the mattress should work even without Wi-Fi.”

I appreciate the drifting semantics of names, but Wi-Fi and AWS are really not the same thing.

HPsquared•8m ago
No WiFi, no AWS (as far as the mattress is concerned). "Works without WiFi" would be sufficient but not necessary for functioning through the AWS outage.
omnicognate•6m ago
Right, but during the AWS outage that took these beds out presumably most of the owners had functioning WiFi.
HPsquared•5m ago
Yeah, "works without any internet connection at all" is perhaps overkill for an AWS outage but I'll allow it.