AI & Enterprise
Amazon AWS data centre hit by drone attack in UAE, finance and payment services disrupted
Amazon Web Services data centres in the United Arab Emirates were hit by a drone attack, knocking banking and payment systems offline on a large scale, CNBC reported on Tuesday. AWS said two data centres in the UAE and Bahrain were offline. The outage disrupted services including Careem and payment firms Alaan and Hubpay, while banks such as ADCB and Emirates NBD and software company Snowflake also faced disruptions.
