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Musk sparks Signal debate after AWS outage and X Chat promotion
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Published on 24 April 2026
A major cloud outage took down Signal too
After an AWS outage, Elon Musk posted on X that it was “pretty weird” the disruption caused Signal to fail. He criticized Signal’s reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure and used the moment to promote X Chat. The incident has reignited debate over whether key communications services should depend on big cloud providers.
- Musk linked an AWS outage to Signal failing
- He questioned Signal’s reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure
- Musk promoted X Chat amid the disruption
- The fallout revives scrutiny of cloud dependencies
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