Owners of Eight Sleep smart beds got anything but a good night’s sleep Monday, as the beds began heating up uncontrollably while also getting frozen in position due to Amazon’s worldwide server outage.
Eight Sleep CEO Matteo Franceschetti took to X to apologize for the malfunctioning “Pod” smart beds, which cost $2,600 and up, and he promised that the company would work “24/7” to “outage-proof” the beds. That fix is rolling out now, the company told TechHive.
“The AWS outage has impacted some of our users since last night, disrupting their sleep,” Franceschetti wrote on X . “That is not the experience we want to provide and I want to apologize for it.”
Furious Eight Sleep owners vented on Reddit, describing how their smart beds were overheating and stuck in odd positions.”
“My pod is