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You know? No matter what the device is, it should always have a "fail to local" mode for everything. This is stupid.

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>A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on October 20 had the unexpected side effect of causing chaos in bedrooms across the US, as owners of Eight Sleep’s $2,000+ ‘Pod’ mattress covers found their smart beds had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures and odd positions in the night. The outage began around 3 am ET, when AWS reported “increased error rates and latencies” in its US-EAST-1 region. By mid-morning, Downdetector had logged more than eight million reports of disruptions affecting apps, games, and banking platforms.

You know? No matter what the device is, it should always have a "fail to local" mode for everything. This is stupid. Archive: https://archive.today/5Bp7F From the post: >>A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on October 20 had the unexpected side effect of causing chaos in bedrooms across the US, as owners of Eight Sleep’s $2,000+ ‘Pod’ mattress covers found their smart beds had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures and odd positions in the night. The outage began around 3 am ET, when AWS reported “increased error rates and latencies” in its US-EAST-1 region. By mid-morning, Downdetector had logged more than eight million reports of disruptions affecting apps, games, and banking platforms.
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[–] • 8 pts

That is comically stupid. You would have to be a fucking moron to have your building access systems be "in the cloud". It should be on-site and local only at most.

[–] • 3 pts

You know kinda where I work. When I say everything was shut down, I do mean everything short of Google hosted apps. The emails I was seeing throughout the day were pure comedy