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I believe the implication is that a lot of critical AWS engineers are of Indian descent and are off celebrating today.

junon's implication may be that AWS engineers of Indian descent would tend to be located on the West Coast.

North Virginia has a very large Indian community.

All the schools in the area have days off for Indian Holidays since so many would be out of school otherwise.

This broke in the middle of the day IST did it not? Why would you start waking up people in VA if it’s 3 in the morning there if you don’t have to?