"This week, AWS went down, along with a quarter of the internet. It's funny how much we rely on cloud infrastructure even for services that should natively work offline. That is, "funny" as long as you're not a customer of said services trying to do something important to you. I know how frustrating it was when Grammarly stopped correcting my writing during the outage, even if it's anything but a critical service to me."
"I tried to google up the exact phrase. It returned only a Redit/X trail of the original "You don't say" retort. Googling exact quotes from the CNBC article did return several links that republished the piece, but all used the original title, not the one from the smartass comment. It didn't seem CNBC had been A/B testing the headline. By that point, I was like, compare these two pictures. Find five differences (the bottom one is the legitimate screenshot). So yes, jokes on you, jokers."
AWS experienced an outage that took down about a quarter of the internet, revealing heavy reliance on cloud infrastructure for services that could run offline. Users lost access to features like Grammarly corrections, producing frustration even for noncritical tools. Social media mocked Amazon and a viral Elon Musk tweet amplified the ridicule across platforms. A meme falsely attributed a provocative headline about AI-generated code to a news item and spread quickly. A search traced the image back to CNBC coverage referencing Matt Garman, but the meme's headline did not match the original. Many people shared and laughed at the altered screenshot without verifying the source.
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