India, Oct. 20 -- As Amazon Web Services (AWS) faced a massive global outage on Monday, disrupting a wide range of popular websites and apps across the world, billionaire Elon Musk took a swipe at the tech giant - promoting his own messaging platform, X chat, as a safer, independent alternative.

"The messages (on X chat) are fully encrypted with no advertising hooks or strange 'AWS dependencies' such that I can't read your messages even if someone put a gun to my head," Musk posted on X. "You can also do file transfers and audio/video calls," he added.

The outage at AWS, Amazon's powerful cloud services arm, brought down major platforms including Snapchat, Fortnite, Robinhood, Coinbase, Perplexity AI, and Duolingo. Amazon's own services...