Elon Musk Criticizes Amazon After AWS Outage
A major AWS outage on October 20 knocked out several cloud-dependent platforms, temporarily bringing nearly half the internet to a halt.
Services including Amazon Prime Video, Canva, and Perplexity AI faced downtime, affecting millions of users worldwide.
Elon Musk responded with a sarcastic "You don’t say" on X to a statement from the AWS CEO claiming 75% of Amazon’s production code is now AI-generated.
- Signal, an encrypted messaging app relying on AWS servers, was also impacted by the outage.
- Signal’s President Meredith Whittaker confirmed the platform's downtime on X.
Author's summary: Musk mocks Amazon after AWS outage.