Yandex data centre shut by drones, third hit in fo...

Summary

• A Yandex data centre in Vladimir stopped working on Sunday after a Ukrainian drone attack, the third strike on the tech giant’s sites in four days.
• Third Yandex data centre hit this weekThe strike widens a Ukrainian campaign against infrastructure deep inside Russia.
• Yandex said the attack completely disabled several modules at the Kaluga facility, its largest Yandex data centre.

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A Yandex data centre in Vladimir stopped working on Sunday after a Ukrainian drone attack, the third strike on the tech giant’s sites in four days.

Yandex, often called Russia’s Google, said the drones damaged the site’s infrastructure and halted its operations completely. “There were no injuries,” its cloud service said on Telegram.

The attack caused outages across many Yandex services, according to independent Russian outlet Astra. Users in dozens of Russian cities, as well as in Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia, could not order taxis or use banking services.

Third Yandex data centre hit this week

The strike widens a Ukrainian campaign against infrastructure deep inside Russia. Thursday’s strike took out a Yandex site at Sasovo, in Ryazan region, to the southeast of the capital.

That hub houses two of the three supercomputers Yandex uses to build its artificial intelligence models. A day later, drones hit the firm’s largest data centre, located in Kaluga region to the capital’s southwest.