Amazon's AI-Generated Code and AWS Outage
Elon Musk criticized Amazon after a major AWS outage on Monday, Oct. 20, affected several cloud-dependent platforms for hours, bringing nearly half the internet to a halt.
Services including Amazon Prime Video, Canva, Perplexity AI, and others relying on Amazon Web Services faced downtime, frustrating millions of users worldwide.
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 Signal's President Meredith Whittaker on X.
- Musk had earlier expressed distrust in Signal, which depends on AWS servers.
Author's summary: Musk mocks Amazon's AI-generated code after AWS outage.