Owners of Eight Sleep's smart beds were struck by the AWS outage this week, with the internet issues causing their beds to overheat and get stuck in an upright position.

Smart mattress brand Eight Sleep is working on a new failsafe for future outages after customers were unable to make changes to their products.

The widespread outage involving the cloud-computing provider Amazon Web Services was particularly disruptive ensnared unexpected consumers earlier this week: People who just wanted to sleep well.

Owners of Eight Sleep’s “Pod” smart mattress covers reported that their beds became overheated and stuck in awkward positions during the AWS outage.

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