Foreign workers look at a tall plume of black smoke ascends following an explosion in the Fujairah industrial zone on March 3, 2026.
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Apps and digital services in the United Arab Emirates are reporting outages following drone strikes on Amazon Web Services’ data centers in the country.
AWS said late Monday that two of its data centers in the UAE and a facility in Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes, taking the facilities offline.
Consumer apps, including delivery and taxi platform Careem, and payments companies Alaan and Hubpay reported outages as a result of issues with AWS infrastructure in the country.
Banking providers, including ADCB and Emirates NBD, alongside enterprise software providers like Snowflake, have also reported service disruptions.
The U.S. and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran over weekend, killing the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and prompting waves of attacks by Tehran across the region.
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