AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto
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The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.
  • hayk@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    a lot of people are questioning why the beds are not fail-safe, while I’m actually not sure why a fucking bed has to have internet access in the first place.

      • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
        2·
        7 days ago

        Iirc Amazon has a special tooling for creating iot devices. It’s supposed to make creating the communication easier so you don’t have a bunch badly implemented communication systems. Ofc it uses Amazon’s cloud.

        I would not be surprised if they all failed this way due to using the tool. As in the Dev’s code might not even get to know there was an outage, and the tool just keeps telling it the last state it got.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Yeah, that’s so ridiculous. They could’ve just turned off the heating and made it lay flat, and it would’ve been fine. But evidently, they did not even think about handling an outage.