A funny case study of the 21st “software engineering” at its best.

As result of #AWS failure, a number of commercial products stopped working that relied on AWS hosted services. Such as the Eight Sleep Pod beds.

Yes, physical beds for sleeping relied on AWS to work. And it was not some kind of extremely sophisticated “AI” processing, but simple schedule “make warmer”, “make colder”, “raise/lower” etc. All that was controlled through AWS.

When AWS stopped working users started complaining that their beds got stuck in weird positions and users were unable to control them. So yes, a bed say in Netherlands stopped working because it could not retrieve instructions from US server which were sent there by the person physically present on said bed.

And the bonus: each bed sent 20 GB of telemetry data to AWS each month.

Source: https://x.com/zimm3rmann/status/1980491408948572167 (on Twitter, sorry)

What to know about the Amazon cloud outage that exposed the internet’s vulnerable backbone, from @AssociatedPress.

The outage "demonstrated just how many people rely on the corporate behemoth’s computational infrastructure everyday — and laid bare the vulnerabilities of an increasingly concentrated system."

https://flip.it/.aUinq

#Amazon #AWS #Tech #Technology #Internet

A funny case study of the 21st “software engineering” at its best.

As result of #AWS failure, a number of commercial products stopped working that relied on AWS hosted services. Such as the Eight Sleep Pod beds.

Yes, physical beds for sleeping relied on AWS to work. And it was not some kind of extremely sophisticated “AI” processing, but simple schedule “make warmer”, “make colder”, “raise/lower” etc. All that was controlled through AWS.

When AWS stopped working users started complaining that their beds got stuck in weird positions and users were unable to control them. So yes, a bed say in Netherlands stopped working because it could not retrieve instructions from US server which were sent there by the person physically present on said bed.

And the bonus: each bed sent 20 GB of telemetry data to AWS each month.

Source: https://x.com/zimm3rmann/status/1980491408948572167 (on Twitter, sorry)

@jackgangi

I only knew about it because I read about it on this here newfangled distributed activityverse Mastofed thingie, which somehow seems to still work perfectly fine.

#AWS #Fediverse #Decentralization

Monopolies are single points of failure.

#AWS #decentralization

Monopolies are single points of failure.

#AWS #decentralization

Looks like people/businesses should start using different AWS regions. US-East-1 region seems to be the biggest culprit of most outages.

#AWSOutage #AWS

By pure coincidence, @pluralistic 's reminder that everyone (Americans included) needs to reduce their tech dependence on the American broligarchy happened during a major AWS outage.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

#bigtech #AWS #Microsoft #Google #Apple #Facebook #Meta #X #Twitter #Amazon

"The list includes McDonald's, DisneyPlus, Snapchat, Signal, Roblox, Verizon, Fortnite, Venmo, Perplexity, Hulu, Duolingo, Perplexity, Reddit and Coinbase. Even Amazon.com was offline at one point, and some users have also reported that their Alexa smart speakers and Ring doorbells had stopped working.

Banks and even some government websites have been affected"

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/amazon_aws_outage/?td=rt-3a

#decentralisation #aws #amazon

Way too many bytes in one basket makes for one very big single point of failure. This is the cost of an absurdly hyper-centralised fast-food-like data center culture.

Signal++ down, sucks, but it's seeing fundamentals like banks & public sector services break that stings most.

But hey, maybe this is what it tales to push more govs to actual #datasovereignty, investing in locally owned data centers or building out their team & hosting on-prem

#decentralisation #amazon #aws

By pure coincidence, @pluralistic 's reminder that everyone (Americans included) needs to reduce their tech dependence on the American broligarchy happened during a major AWS outage.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

#bigtech #AWS #Microsoft #Google #Apple #Facebook #Meta #X #Twitter #Amazon

Best wishes and sympathy to any former colleagues dealing with us-east-1 going pear-shaped. Looking at the signals, this outage is an extra-weird one, which is unsurprising because with decades of experience, all the non-extra-weird outage scenarios have been discovered and dealt with.

#aws

Meanwhile, because Mastodon server admins are all cheapskates and we're not going to pay the sort of prices for hosting that AWS charge, the Fediverse keeps on chugging away happily while the corporate internet falls apart.

#AWS #AWSdown #Fediverse

The Amazon Web Services outage hit major websites and apps across the globe, including @Flipboard.

What we know so far as recovery begins, from CNBC: https://flip.it/sH.6Hr

#Amazon #AWS #Tech #Technology #News

The AWS outage just shows that you don't have to have accounts with Amazon (or Google, or Microsoft, or Meta) for them to digitally fuck you up.

We need the EU and the UK to start thinking seriously about digital sovereignty, to be independent of US Big Tech, and to be self-reliant as soon as possible.

#BigTech #AWS #Amazon #DigitalSovereignty #Internet #US #EU #UK

🚨 Another massive AWS outage just took down Roblox, Fortnite, Coinbase, Snapchat, and all Supercell games.

Half the internet has gone dark because of one Big Tech company. This is not innovation, it is monopoly risk.

💡It’s time to choose alternatives.

#GoEuropean #OneClickAway #DigitalSovereignty #AWS #Outage