Cloudflare Outage Takes Down X One Month After Musk Mocked Aws Customers

Ah, nan inevitabilities of life: death, taxes, and eating crow connected nan internet.

The infrastructure work Cloudflare faced monolithic outages connected Tuesday morning, cutting disconnected entree to a number of celebrated platforms for illustration ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, and others. The outage besides impacted Elon Musk’s X, conscionable 1 period aft nan CEO gloated astatine a widespread AWS outage, which included nan encrypted messaging work Signal.

“Messages connected X chat are afloat encrypted pinch nary advertizing hooks aliases unusual ‘AWS dependencies,’ truthful I can’t publication your messages moreover if personification put a weapon to my head,” Musk wrote connected X. We cannot nexus his station directly, since X is down.

Signal President Meredith Whittaker took nan outage arsenic an opportunity to explicate nan detriment of truthful overmuch of nan net being tally connected conscionable a fewer infrastructure services, for illustration CloudFlare and AWS.

“The mobility isn’t ‘why does Signal usage AWS?’” she wrote connected Bluesky. “It’s to look astatine nan infrastructural requirements of immoderate global, real-time, wide comms level and inquire really it is that we sewage to a spot wherever there’s nary realistic replacement to AWS and nan different hyperscalers.”

Cloudflare wrote connected its status page that nan rumor had been identified, and a hole was being implemented. As of publication, work has not been restored to each Cloudflare customers yet, but users whitethorn announcement immoderate platforms starting to travel backmost online.

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