<ul><li>PhonePe faced a significant UPI outage on Monday around 7:30 PM due to network capacity shortfall at the newly deployed data centre during disaster recovery drills.</li><li>All traffic was routed through the new data centre as part of heightened cybersecurity measures, leading to infrastructure failure under high transaction volume.</li><li>Rahul Chari, the co-founder and CTO of PhonePe, cited the escalation of conflict as the reason behind the active disaster recovery drills that caused the outage.</li><li>Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder of Paytm, confirmed smooth UPI operations on the Paytm platform amidst PhonePe's outage issues.</li></ul>

Phonepe Faces UPI Outages After Disaster Recovery Drill Overloads New Data Centre

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