A filepic of a display for the smart-bed system Eight Sleep, in New York. Eight Sleep became the object of social media derision after its products were affected by the Amazon Web Services outage of October 2025. — Jeenah Moon/The New York Times
Some users of the smart-bed system Eight Sleep, who sleep atop a snug, temperature-regulating mattress cover in search of “zero-gravity rest”, were rousted from their slumber earlier this week for a surprising reason.
Eight Sleep’s collections of smart products, which the company calls “Pods”, and include those “intelligent” mattress covers, were affected by an outage involving the cloud-storage provider Amazon Web Services, which sent large sectors of the internet into disarray on Monday.
