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Attacks disrupt Yandex services and its data centers in Russia
A series of attacks on Yandex data centers in Russia disrupted services run by the company and by businesses that use its cloud systems.
On October 11, a drone attack hit a data center in Vladimir region, stopping about 40 megawatts of capacity and damaging a supercomputer.
Data centers in Kaluga and Ryazan regions had also been damaged in attacks on October 8 and 9.
By the morning of October 12, Yandex’s main services were partly restored, but some cloud, payment and business systems still had problems.
Yandex also limited access to its Disk service to reduce demand on the infrastructure that remained in operation.
Users in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan reported problems with Yandex Go and other services.
The disruption highlights how outages at large data centers can affect many companies and users, including beyond Russia.
Bloggers have debated the risks of concentrating digital services and how long and costly it may be to restore lost capacity; Yandex’s service restrictions were still in place as it worked to ease the load.
Attacks on Yandex data centers in Russia disrupted the company’s services and affected other businesses using Yandex Cloud.
By the morning of October 12, major user services had been partly restored, but cloud infrastructure and some payment and corporate systems remained limited.
The attacks damaged data centers in Kaluga, Ryazan and Vladimir regions, according to Radio Svoboda.
Yandex Go and other services also faced reported disruptions in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
- Who
- Yandex and businesses that use Yandex Cloud were affected.
- What
- Attacks on Yandex data centers disrupted services and damaged computing infrastructure.
- When
- Attacks were reported on October 8 and 9, and again on October 11; disruptions continued on October 12.
- Where
- Data centers in Russia’s Kaluga, Ryazan and Vladimir regions were affected. Service disruptions were also reported in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
- Why
- The sources report attacks by drones but do not state who carried them out or give a confirmed motive.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Attacks on data centers in Kaluga and Ryazan regions damaged Yandex supercomputers, according to Radio Svoboda.
A drone attack hit a Yandex data center in Vladimir region, stopping about 40 megawatts of capacity and damaging the Galushkin supercomputer.
Major Yandex user services had been partly restored, while cloud infrastructure and some payment and corporate systems remained limited.
- Yandex data centers affected
- Kaluga, Ryazan and Vladimir regions
- Vladimir facility capacity
- About 40 megawatts
- Yandex data centers operating in Russia
- Six
- Service recovery
- Major user services partly restored by the morning of October 12
- Affected neighboring countries
- Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
What people are saying
Ukraine has every opportunity to push Russia into a pre-digital age, only with the pre-digital services and professions already destroyed or cancelled.
They are building a huge centralized Yandex data center hundreds of kilometers from air defense inside the Moscow Ring Road, and then trying to knock out dozens of small data centers in a decentralized system to leave Ukraine without internet.
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