The machine wars have started. Last month, the first skirmish broke out between smart beds and their human hosts when the former tried to toast the latter. OK, maybe we’re being a bit melodramatic. The recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, however, did cause a brand of smart beds to malfunction, reportedly resulting in people being twisted into pretzels and baked at Arizona-like temperatures in the middle of the night. Or something like that.
The AWS incident knocked out a broad swath of the internet in the wee hours of the morning. While most people in North America blissfully slept through the early stages of the disruption – except for those being murdered in their beds by their beds – at least one company was already seeing and reacting to a spike in disruptions.
