AWS outage disrupts internet; Musk mocks Amazon

2 weeks ago

A major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday triggered widespread disruption across the internet, affecting everything from social media platforms and gaming apps to banking services and government portals. The incident exposed the fragility of global digital infrastructure, and gave Elon Musk an opening to promote his own platform. The outage originated in AWS’s US-East-1 region in Northern Virginia, a