When Amazon's cloud face-planted on Monday, it didn't just take down some of the world's most popular apps – it took down dignity, comfort, and the occasional cat toilet.

The AWS outage saw a long list of services go dark, from Snapchat to Signal, but the real victims were the gadgets that revealed how ludicrously cloud-dependent our creature comforts have become.

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

One of the standout casualties was EightSleep, the so-called smart mattress that learns your body, adjusts its temperature, tracks your sleep phases, and streams that data back to the cloud for a cool $200 a month.

"My bed is stuck in Relax mode and won't change," moaned one user , while another admitted they were "sweating through my sheets because the app's dea

See Full Page