Eight Sleep Introduces Outage Mode Following AWS Disruption

TL;DR
Eight Sleep's smart beds were temporarily rendered unusable during an AWS outage, causing issues with temperature and incline settings. The company has introduced an 'outage mode' allowing offline control via Bluetooth to mitigate such problems in the future.
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