Before dawn on March 1, 2026, while most of the Gulf was asleep, a swarm of Iranian Shahed drones crossed into the United Arab Emirates. They weren't headed for a military base. They weren't aimed at a port or an airstrip. They were looking for something far more valuable — and far more vulnerable. They found it. Two Amazon Web Services data centers in the UAE took direct hits. A third in Bahrain was damaged by a nearby strike. Structural damage. Fires. Power knocked out. Fire suppression systems flooded the hardware with water. Two of the three availability zones in AWS's entire Middle East region went dark simultaneously — something the system was never designed to survive. Banks went offline. Payments failed. Careem, the Gulf's dominant ride-hailing and delivery platform, went down. Emirates NBD, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank — all reported disruptions. The UAE stock market halted. AWS quietly told its customers to migrate their workloads to othe...
Here's another reason to get the Google +1 button on your website or blog. Google has been busy working on the usefulness of this button and in the coming weeks. The button is going to get a feature that is simply awesome as well as useful. When visitors hover over the +1 button they will see recommendations for other useful content from your website or blog. Thus leading to more engagement and content discovery. +1'ing is becoming a fun way to recommend stuff on he internet and let your friends in on what you think is hot. Also all content recommended will be from your domain or subdomains the +1 button is located on. Recommendations are very popular on blogs and every person who owns a blog knows that this is one feature that helps you retain visitors and get them to read more and discover more. If your site or blog already has the +1 button there is nothing you need to do to get this added feature. It will be updated automatically across the web in the next few coming weeks.
Source: Google+ Developers Blog

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