Russian technology company Yandex has completely shut down its data center in Vladimir after a drone attack. The outage caused problems with Yandex Home, Yandex Music, Telemost, and the Yandex Cloud platform.
Russian technology company Yandex has completely shut down its data center in Vladimir after a drone attack. The outage caused problems with Yandex Home, Yandex Music, Telemost, and the Yandex Cloud platform.
The data center outage was reported by the company itself and the OSINT channel Exilenova+. According to them, the infrastructure was damaged, and specialized services and specialists are working to eliminate the consequences. There is no information about the victims.
The facility’s capacity is 50 MW, and it is designed for 2,880 server racks.
Vladimir Region Governor Alexander Avdeev confirmed that drones attacked infrastructure in the suburbs of Vladimir. A fire broke out after the strike, and 5,000 residents were left without electricity due to the shutdown of two substations. They promise to restore power supply under a backup scheme when the threat passes.
People from the houses closest to the attacked facility are being evacuated. According to the governor, the residential buildings have not been destroyed, and there is currently no information about casualties.
Russians are massively complaining about service failures.
The outage affected ru-central1-a availability zone of the Yandex Cloud platform. It experienced power outages, which made part of the cloud infrastructure unavailable. Among the affected services are Yandex Home, Yandex Music, and Telemost. Other Yandex Cloud components used by companies and developers were also affected.
The company warned customers that the platform’s available resources remain unstable and its operation is in emergency mode. Users were advised to use alternative disaster recovery plans.
According to monitoring channels, the outage was related to a drone attack on a data center in Vladimir. However, Yandex’s statement about the power outage did not specify the immediate cause.
In early October, problems also arose at other sites of the company. On the night of October 8, a drone attack damaged a data center in Sasov, Ryazan Region. A fire broke out there, after which the facility’s operations were completely stopped.
On October 9, Yandex also reported an attack on its data center in Kaluga, causing part of its infrastructure to fail. The company said it was assessing the damage and that the timing of full equipment restoration was not yet known.
Data centers provide not only the company’s consumer services, but also the cloud infrastructure on which customers host their applications, databases, and other digital resources.
