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...
Companies both large and small are turning to social networking sites for a number of reasons. 1. With the large pool of people on these sites it becomes necessary to have a presence on the sites. Facebook offers pages where companies can create their profile and users or fans can join these pages and get up to date information from the company. It adds a real social feel to the company and new product role outs can now be done live on a Facebook page. 2. Twitter with its versatile openness to one and all offers companies to reach out to customers and clients much more easily. People find their fav companies on twitter and become followers. This allows companies to much more easily push their products and their services. Feedback is also live as they can track in real-time what is being said about them. 3. Companies needs to have a social presence. It seems much easier to have a social presence than to have a social site. It is less expensive as Facebook and Twitter can Handel the traf...