The AWS outage that crippled Snapchat also exposed the shocking fragility of critical infrastructure and took out governments.

In a post on 'X' (formerly Twitter), the Tesla CEO mocked Amazon saying, 'You don't say', by reposting a statement of the Amazon CEO where he claimed that 75% of code at Amazon is now AI-generated.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) says a massive overnight outage in its US-East-1 region—one of its busiest data centres—caused widespread internet disruptions across North America and beyond. The company finally restored all services by Monday at 3:01pm PT it says,

It's easy to laugh, but the outage was also a reminder of how fragile our "smart" world really is. The EightSleep became a glorified heating pad, the LitterRobot a luxury scoop, the Hue bulbs a collection of dumb glass, and Alexa a silent witness to it all.

A failure at an Amazon Web Services data center in Virginia caused widespread outages, hitting services at several banks and fintechs.

Billionaire businessman Elon Musk also took a swipe at Amazon over the chaotic situation and reminded that his X platform remained unaffected.

A global outage of Amazon Web Services sparks warning of heightened phishing risk: 6 million+ users affected and scammers poised to strike.

Elon Musk mocked Amazon after a massive AWS outage disrupted major apps like Snapchat, Canva, and Roblox, proudly claiming “X still works.”

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AWS today announced a new machine learning service, Amazon SageMaker Canvas. Unlike its existing machine learning services, the target audience here isn’t highly technical data scientists and engineers but any engineer or business user inside a company.