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Yandex services disrupted after Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian data centers
Yandex, a major Russian internet company, experienced widespread connection problems after Ukrainian drones struck data centers in the Russian city of Vladimir.
The disruptions affected services used by people in Russia, including Yandex’s cloud systems.
Monitoring by NetBlocks indicated that about 80 percent of connections to Yandex servers were working, while the figure for Yandex cloud servers was about 30 percent.
The outages also affected supercomputers that Yandex uses to develop artificial intelligence.
The account says further outages occurred on Thursday and Friday after attacks on several data centers, but does not give details on how long the latest disruption will last.
The strikes show how attacks on data centers can disrupt both everyday internet services and computing used for advanced technology.
Yandex reported major service disruptions after Ukrainian drone strikes on data centers in Vladimir, Russia.
NetBlocks said about 80 percent of connections to Yandex servers were working, while the figure for Yandex Cloud servers was about 30 percent.
The outages affected local internet users and Russian supercomputers used by Yandex for artificial intelligence development.
The article also reported further outages on Thursday and Friday after attacks on several data centers.
- Who
- Yandex, a major Russian internet company, experienced service disruptions after Ukrainian drone strikes.
- What
- Connections to its servers and cloud servers were disrupted.
- When
- Observers reported problems from Sunday morning; further outages reportedly occurred on Thursday and Friday.
- Where
- Data centers in Vladimir, Russia.
- Why
- The disruptions followed Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian data centers.
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Observers began reporting significant connection problems at Yandex servers.
Further outages reportedly occurred after Ukraine attacked several data centers.
- Yandex server connections
- About 80 percent working, according to NetBlocks
- Yandex Cloud connections
- About 30 percent working, according to NetBlocks
- Location of attacked data centers
- Vladimir, Russia
- Affected computing systems
- Russian supercomputers used by Yandex for AI development
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