Millions from around the world were left scrambling on Monday after Amazon Web Services suffered a global outage. The multi-hour outage brought down nearly half the internet — sparking widespread backlash from several quarters. Billionaire businessman Elon Musk also took a swipe at Amazon over the chaotic situation and reminded that his X platform remained unaffected.
“You don’t say,” Musk wrote on X along with a ‘thinking’ emoji.
He also shared an edited news screenshot to underscore his point — contending that AWS now had artificial intelligence pushing 75% of its production code. The article cited by Musk was published in August 2025 but includes no such claim. The X CEO was promptly fact-checked on his own social media platform as readers noticed the discrepancies.
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