Amazon Web Services outage broke smart beds and much more: here is how it happened and what it reveals about our fragile cloud ecosystem

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An AWS outage left smart homes and even smart beds offline, showing just how dependent everyday devices have become on remote servers. With Amazon confirming the root cause in its US-East-1 region, engineers are calling for smarter local backups to prevent future chaos.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Amazon-Web-Services-outage-broke-smart-beds-and-much-more-here-is-how-it-happened-and-what-it-reveals-about-our-fragile-cloud-ecosystem.1148783.0.html

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The fact that many of these stuff require cloud to function is a crime and should be illegal.

In the case of the eight sleep bed, I hear there are unofficial open source firmware that make everything work without the cloud. So the ability is there. These companies push cloud even on these expensive hardware so they can lock features behind subscriptions which is disgusting considering how expensive the stuff is already