Abu Dhabi vs Dubai, when should I choose Abu Dhabi for my Magento store?

Both are UAE federal-territory but they serve very different e-commerce realities. Dubai is the retail + tourism + luxury capital, Dubai Mall / Mall of the Emirates anchor accounts, DMCC commodities, DIFC fintech, d3 fashion DTC, AWS Bahrain-default hosting. Abu Dhabi is the federal capital, the oil-and-gas hub, and the sovereign-wealth / govt-procurement capital, ADNOC (oil), EDGE (defence), Etihad (aviation), Mubadala + ADIA (sovereign wealth), G42 (sovereign AI), FAB (the UAE’s largest bank), Hub71 (Mubadala-backed startups). Choose Abu Dhabi if you are: a Tier-1/2/3 supplier to ADNOC / EDGE / Etihad, an ADGM-licensed financial-services merchant (common law, FSRA-regulated, different from DIFC / DFSA in Dubai), a govt-tendered supplier (TenderBoard + e-Dirham integration), a Mubadala / ADIA portfolio company with data-residency clauses needing G42 Cloud (Abu-Dhabi-resident data) rather than AWS Bahrain, a Saadiyat museum-merch DTC, or a Yas Island entertainment merchant. We do both cities, about 25% of our UAE pipeline is Abu Dhabi, 60% Dubai, 15% Sharjah / RAK.