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A tech worker’s Reddit post about missing Diwali celebrations due to an unexpected AWS outage has gone viral, striking a chord with many in the IT community.

The post, shared under a tech subreddit, begins with a warning the employee gave his manager a week earlier, “Told my manager last week…not to put me oncall during Diwali… I’ll not be able to handle all alone."

His manager brushed it off, reportedly saying, “Relax, nothing ever happens this time of the year."

Told them not to put me oncall for diwali..see the mayhem now by u/firstprincipal in developersIndia

But things took a sharp turn on Diwali night when Amazon Web Services (AWS) faced a major outage, disrupting services across multiple platforms. “Fast forward to tonight. AWS is down. Teams are blo

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