Banking, payments services disrupted after Amazon UAE data centers hit in drone strikes

Foreign workers look at a tall plume of black smoke ascends following an explosion in the Fujairah industrial zone on March 3, 2026.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 compa ...