Elon Musk Mocks Amazon After AWS Outage
A major AWS outage on October 20 knocked out several cloud-dependent platforms, including Amazon Prime Video, Canva, and Perplexity AI, affecting millions of users worldwide.
“You don’t say”
was posted by Elon Musk on X in response to a statement from the AWS CEO, claiming that 75% of Amazon’s production code is now AI-generated.
- Services impacted by the outage included Amazon Prime Video, Canva, and Perplexity AI.
- Signal, the encrypted messaging app, was also affected, with its President Meredith Whittaker confirming the impact on X.
Musk had previously expressed distrust in Signal due to its dependence on AWS servers.
Author's summary: Musk mocks Amazon after AWS outage.