India, Oct. 22 -- A widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on Monday, October 20, disrupted operations across several industries - and left some high-tech sleepers sweating through the night.

Owners of Eight Sleep's "Pod" smart mattress covers reported that their beds became overheated and stuck in awkward positions after the outage caused the devices to go offline. The smart covers, which use AWS servers to manage temperature and positioning, malfunctioned when the servers went down.

These covers retail for upwards of $2,000 on the Eight Sleep website.

"The AWS outage has impacted some of our users since last night, disrupting their sleep. That is not the experience we want to provide and I want to apologise for it," Eight Sleep ...