Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex datacenters knock cloud and payments offline
Ukrainian drone strikes on three Yandex datacenters knocked Yandex Cloud and Yandex Pay offline.
Ukraine struck three of Yandex's five Russian datacenters with drones between October 7 and October 9, taking parts of the company's cloud and payments stack offline. The Sasovo site was seriously damaged and fully shut down, Kaluga lost some infrastructure, and a later strike hit the Vladimir site that supports Yandex Pay. Fintech head Dima Pirogov said customer money is safe but gave no restoration timeline. NetBlocks reported Yandex Cloud connectivity at about 30 percent of normal on October 11, while engineers prioritized Alice, Mail, Maps, Search, and Taxi.
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