Sand might be a firmer foundation

for these castles on a cloud:

• AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright

• Nest thermostat bug leaves users cold

• Revolv devices bricked as Google's Nest shuts down smart home company

• Jeep Wrangler 4xe Over-the-Air Update Leaves Owners with Bricked 4x4s

• An outage leaves Tesla drivers unable to unlock or start their vehicles

• Amazon and PetCo both invested in a $150 internet-connected cat feeder — one day it just stopped working

• Furious customers blast Amazon as an outage knocks Ring doorbells, baby monitors, and Alexa products offline

• Stop buying cloud products: When your “smart home” suddenly turns into electronic waste

• All your IoT devices are doomed

❧ 2025-10-21