Digital services down in UAE after data center drone attacks
Foreign workers look at a plume of black smoke after an explosion in the Fujairah industrial zone on March 3, 2026.
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Apps and digital services in United Arab Emirates The following are reporting outages Drone attacks above Amazon Web Services’ data centers in the country.
AWS said late Monday that its two data centers Drone strikes took damage in the UAE and taking facilities offline in Bahrain.
Delivery and taxi platform Careem, along with consumer apps and payments companies Alan and Hubpay, reported outages due to AWS infrastructure issues in the country.
Banking providers, including ADCB and Emirates NBD, along with enterprise software providers SnowflakeService interruptions are also reported.
US and Israel launched joint attacks Iran Over the weekend, the assassination of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei And by promoting waves of attacks Tehran throughout the region.
Military bases and critical infrastructure, including data centers and oil and gas production facilities, have also been targeted.
App outage
The AWS Health Dashboard recently reported that the disruption was “ongoing.”
“We are progressing recovery efforts across multiple workflows,” the company posted Tuesday at 8:14 a.m. PST. “We strongly recommend that customers with workloads operating in the Middle East take action now to migrate those workloads to alternate AWS regions.”
Alan’s mobile and web apps were offline “due to a severe AWS outage due to ongoing regional conditions,” the company said on its website as of 10:38 a.m. ET. The message was removed at 11:23 am.
“Due to the recent region-wide IT disruption, the ADCB mobile banking app and contact center services are temporarily unavailable,” ADCB said in a post on Twitter on Monday. Emirates NBD also said its phone banking services were affected on Monday, although services were operational on Tuesday.
“Elevated connectivity issues and error rates in the region will continue until the power issue is resolved,” Snowflake posted Monday on an incident report, its most recent update.
Investment app Sarwa said on Monday that AWS issues were causing service disruption, before reporting that its main service was back online on Tuesday. Hubpay said customers may experience problems logging into the app during the disruption on Monday.
Karim’s services are now fully operational, co-founder and CEO Mudassir Sheikha said in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday.
‘Sparks and Fire’
In the drone attacks on Sunday, “objects” hit one of AWS’s data centers and created “sparks and fire,” the company said that day.
“In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly attacked, while in Bahrain, a drone attack near one of our facilities caused material impact to our infrastructure,” AWS said on Monday.
“These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required firefighting activities that have resulted in additional water damage.”
As local operators rush to restore services in the UAE, ripples are being felt in markets around the world.
The Closing the Strait of Hormuz Iran sent shockwaves through global energy markets. US stocks opened decrease rapidly Tuesday morning, then European stocks And Asian markets also fell. Oil prices continue to rise as energy supply shocks are likely.
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