Cloudflare outage takes down X one month after Musk mocked AWS customers
Ah, the inevitabilities of life: death, taxes, and eating crow on the internet. The infrastructure service Cloudflare faced massive outages on Tuesday morning, cutting off access to a number of popular platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, and others. The outage also impacted Elon Musk’s X, just one month after the CEO gloated at a widespread AWS outage, which included the encrypted messaging service Signal. “Messages on X chat are fully encrypted with no advertising hooks or strange ‘AWS dependencies,’ so I can’t read your messages even if someone put a gun to my head,” Musk wrote on X. We cannot link his post directly, since X is down. Signal President Meredith Whittaker took the outage as an opportunity to explain the detriment of so much of the internet…
