A major AWS outage on October 20 caused several cloud-dependent platforms to shut down for hours, affecting nearly half of the internet.
Services like Amazon Prime Video, Canva, and Perplexity AI faced downtime, frustrating millions of users worldwide.
“You don’t say”
Elon Musk posted this sarcastic comment on X in response to a statement from the AWS CEO, claiming that 75% of Amazon’s production code is now AI-generated.
Musk had earlier expressed distrust in Signal, an encrypted messaging app that depends on AWS servers, with Signal’s President Meredith Whittaker confirming the platform was impacted by the outage.
Author summary: Musk mocks Amazon after outage.