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Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex datacenters knock cloud and payments offline
Ukrainian drone strikes damaged three of Yandex's five Russian datacenters on October 7-9, forcing the company to take infrastructure offline and shut down critical services including Yandex Pay, Cloud, Mail, Maps, and Search. Engineers worked to restore services with prioritization based on usage, though Yandex Cloud was operating at 30 percent network connectivity as of October 11, and the company advised customers to use alternative hosting providers. The attacks came in response to Russian drone strikes on Ukrainian datacenters in September that had damaged infrastructure and disrupted civilian services.
Why it matters: Practitioners managing workloads or payments on Yandex Cloud face service unavailability and should activate disaster recovery procedures or migrate to alternative providers until normal operations resume; customers of Yandex Pay and other services must account for extended downtime and potential financial transaction delays.
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