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Topics: Elon Musk, Technology, News, US News
Gerrard Kaonga
Topics: Elon Musk, Technology, News, US News
In a shocking turn of events today, many apps and websites went down and Elon Musk had something rather cheeky to say about it all.
In case you are just getting up or somehow didn’t notice, a whole bunch of websites and apps simply stopped working earlier today (October 20).
Users quickly turned to website Downdetector, which is primarily used to track how well web services are working for the masses, to report their issues.
Those impacts included Amazon Web Services, Snapchat, Canva, Duolingo, and Ring.
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In addition to these, other sites and applications impacted included Roblox, Clash Royale, Life360, Getty Images, My Fitness Pal, Xero, Amazon Music, Prime Video, Clash of Clans, Fortnite, Wordle, Coinbase, HMRC, Vodafone, PlayStation and Pokémon Go.
While many of these websites and companies are not often associated with one another one thing they share in common is their connection with Amazon Web Services.
The company offers infrastructure to these services and companies and ensures much of the modern internet runs properly.
According to the company, the issues are affecting Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, both of which allow companies to rent storage and computers to run their services.
People quickly took to social media to complain about ‘half the internet’ going down.
But Elon Musk took advantage of the situation to make a slight dig at Amazon.
He simply took to his Twitter page and wrote: “X works.”
He later retweeted a gif with the caption, 'Everyone running to X’, as it showed a rabble of people quickly moving down an escalator.
Many of his supporters praised the billionaire for his savage dig at the other companies, while also mocking the many users who were complaining about the outage.
One person on Twitter wrote: “Holy s*** the whole f****** internet is down."
Another said: “Wow Amazon Web Services went down and took half the internet with it.”
A third wrote: “Of all the things I could've expected today I was NOT expecting the whole internet to go down.”
An update on the website says that engineers are 'immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause'.
It added: "We will provide an update in 45 minutes, or sooner if we have additional information to share."
At this time, some of the websites and apps have returned to working normally.