Elon Musk’s savage two-word response as ‘half the internet’ goes down in major outage

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 (Monday 20).

Users quickly turned to website Downdetector, a website 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.

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.

Musk took to Twitter to mock the outage issues

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.”

People took to social media to complain about the outage issues

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.

World’s most popular apps stop working in major internet outage

Multiple apps and websites have gone down

Multiple users are reporting significant issues with a whole host of different websites and apps in a major internet outage.

The internet issues started in the early morning of October 20, and many people have complained that their most reliable apps and websites are failing to work.

Downdetector, which tracks user complaints for web service, has shown a sudden and widespread outage. This has included Amazon Web Services, Snapchat, Canva, Duolingo, and Ring.

Meanwhile, other sites and applications that seem to have been affected also include the likes of Roblox, Clash Royale, Life360, My Fitness Pal, Xero, Amazon Music, Prime Video, Clash of Clans, Fortnite, Wordle, Coinbase, HMRC, Vodafone, PlayStation and Pokémon Go.

While these apps and companies are not often associated with one another, the internet issues seem to be tied to Amazon Web services.

Users have taken to reporting the web and app issues they have been having

The company offers infrastructure to these services and companies and ensures much of the modern internet runs properly.

The issues began around midnight (PT), with the Amazon’s service status page seeing ‘increased error rates’ and delays with ‘multiple AWS services’.

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’.

“We will provide an update in 45 minutes, or sooner if we have additional information to share.” its adds.

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 have taken to social media to complain about the outage

It is now the most popular provider of such cloud services in the world. It made $108 billion last year, and it now accounts for the majority of Amazon’s profits.

Fortnite, one of the apps struck in the outage, took to their social media to inform users of the ongoing issue.

In a X (formerly Twitter) post, they wrote: “An outage affecting several services on the internet is also impacting Fortnite log-ins. We’re investigating this now, and will update you when we have more details.”

The outage has left some people panicked on social media, as one person wrote on X: “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.”