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...
Even wondered what happens when you block someone on Gmail Chat. Was thinking on these lines and did a little research and this is what we found out. For starters many of your Gmail Chat friends can become quiet annoying after sometime. Then there are those people you added by accident, who are not pestering you. Whatever might be the reasons' - there comes a time when you want to block a group of people or a single individual. Firstly, for those who do not know how to block someone in Gchat. This is what you need to do. Once you login to Gmail hover over the name of the person you want to block and click the down arrow beside the phone icon. The last option is block, click on that to block a person . When you block a person this is what happens . When you login to Gmail Chat again - both of you will not appear in each other's friends list or rather will not appear online.Their name might still appear in a grayed out icon. This will however not affect any emailing capabilities...