Disruptions lasted upward of two hours for most services, though some users—mostly in the United States—continued to see problems for over six hours. AWS announced at 5:27 a.m. ET that core issues had been resolved and most services were recovering, but intermittent disruptions persisted into the morning.

Perhaps one of the most avoidable breakdowns came via people’s beds. The reliance on the Internet for smart bed products from Eight Sleep resulted in people being awoken by beds locked into inclined positions and sweltering temperatures.

Amazon's AWS outage meant big problems for large swaths of the internet. What have we learned in the past 24 hours?

Some owners of the Eight Sleep brand smart beds really lost some sleep over the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday. The outage affected internet platforms such as Roblox, Reddit, Amazon and thousands more, leaving people unable to work and access websites. But one of the more unusual effects of the outage involved the fancy bed accessories.

More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.

Amazon Web Services is recovering after an outage that disrupted Facebook, Snapchat, Fortnite, Coinbase and other major platforms, once again illustrating the internet’s heavy reliance on the cloud giant and a lack of redundancy in online services.

Eight Sleep staff undoubtedly endured a sleepless night as the impact of the AWS outage spread to its neck of the woods.

When Amazon Web Services suffered an outage on Monday morning, it practically took down the internet with it. There went all of Amazon’s services, from its shopping hub to its Ring doorbell cameras. ChatGPT went quiet. “Smart” mattresses became unsleepable. Video games like Fortnite blinked out, as did platforms like Snapchat and banking apps.