Amazon cancels AWS Mumbai Summit owing to coronavirus outbreak
E-commerce giant Amazon’s Cloud arm Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Wednesday announced that it has cancelled its flagship event, the AWS Summit in India owing to the coronavirus outbreak.
The AWS Summit 2020 was scheduled to be held in Mumbai from April 7-9.
“Due to the continued concerns about COVID-19, Amazon Web Services has cancelled the AWS Mumbai Summit scheduled for April 7-9 in Mumbai. We’ve reached this decision after much consideration, as the health and safety of our employees, customers, and partners are our top priority,” said an AWS spokesperson.
This is not the first major tech event to be cancelled owing to the COVID-19 outbreak across the globe.