Indian Techies Face Diwali Chaos Amid Amazon Cloud Outage

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage caused chaos for Indian tech workers celebrating Diwali, disrupting thousands of services reliant on AWS infrastructure. Many professionals shared funny and frustrated posts online, saying they were called into emergency work shifts. The outage led to temporary shutdowns in e-commerce, fintech, and OTT platforms across India, sparking conversations about overreliance on cloud systems.

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Indian Techies Face Diwali Chaos Amid Amazon Cloud Outage
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Indian Techies Face Diwali Chaos Amid Amazon Cloud Outage

IN SHORTAn Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage caused chaos for Indian tech workers celebrating Diwali, disrupting thousands of services reliant on AWS infrastructure. Many professionals shared funny and frustrated posts online, saying they were called into emergency work shifts. The outage led to temporary shutdowns in e-commerce, fintech, and OTT platforms across India, sparking conversations about overreliance on cloud systems.

TL;DR

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage occurred during Diwali night.
  • Indian engineers faced sudden on-call duties mid-celebrations.
  • The outage affected multiple e-commerce and banking apps.
  • Social media flooded with memes and angry reactions.
  • Hashtag “#AWSDown” trended across Indian Twitter.
  • Engineers said outages ruin their festive holidays every year.
  • Small businesses reported losses from digital payment failures.
  • Amazon acknowledged partial disruption due to network scaling.
  • Service was restored after four hours of downtime.
  • The outage revived arguments about dependency on centralized cloud systems.

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