Banking apps and payment services are experiencing outages as a result of drone strikes on Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
AWS confirmed two of its data centres in the country, as well as a facility in Bahrain, were hit as the US-Iran war escalates in the region.
Among the UEA apps impacted by the conflict including delivery and taxi platform Careem, and payments companies Alaan and Hubpay.
Furthermore, banking providers ADCB and Emirates NBD have reported outages, as well as software provider Snowflake.
Banking app outages are being caused by US-Iran war
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While no UK-based banking services have been impacted, around 200,000 Britons are currently based in the Gulf States.
Over the weekend, the US and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran, resulting in the death of the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene.
In response, Tehran has launched a wave of attacks on US military bases across the region, as well as on the critical energy infrastructure based in Gulf States.
On the AWS Health Dashboard, the service posted that the disruption impacting banking app outages remain “outgoing”.
UK-based bank apps have been hit by outages in recent months
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In a statement posTed at 8:14am PST, AWS said: “We continue to make progress on recovery efforts across multiple workstreams.
“We continue to strongly recommend that customers with workloads running in the Middle East take action now to migrate those workloads to alternate AWS Regions.
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