Food delivery apps Zomato, Swiggy hit by hour-long technical glitch

Downdetector, a platform that collects status reports from a series of sources, recorded 3,619 reports of outage against Zomato at 2:05 PM and 771 against Swiggy at 2:21 PM

Food delivery apps Zomato and Swiggy reported a nationwide outage on Wednesday. Both the platforms witnessed technical glitches and were unresponsive for almost an hour. Downdetector, a platform that collects status reports from a series of sources, recorded about 3,619 reports of outage against Zomato at 2:05 PM and about 771 reports of outage against Swiggy at around 2:21 PM. According to the sources, the outage was caused by Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud-services platform, which runs both platforms.

Though Swiggy and Zomato are working now, some customers reported that the issue has not been solved completely and they