Amazon's AI-Generated Code and 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, frustrating millions of users worldwide.
Elon Musk posted a sarcastic "You don’t say" on X in response to a statement from the AWS CEO, claiming 75% of Amazon’s production code is now AI-generated.
- Signal, the encrypted messaging app, was also impacted by the outage, confirmed by President Meredith Whittaker on X.
- Musk had earlier expressed distrust in Signal, which depends on AWS servers.
Author's summary: Elon Musk mocks Amazon after AWS outage.