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Yandex only started creating automatic backups after the Ukrainian drone strikes, but customers will have to pay for the innovation. Before that, the company irretrievably lost almost 3% of its data

Previously, Yandex Cloud did not have backup of new virtual data enabled by default. Yandex decided to change this only after Ukrainian drone strikes on its data centers, when almost 3% of customer data was already irretrievably lost. Now Yandex customers will have to pay extra for backup if they do not disable it themselves.

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Yandex only started creating automatic backups after the Ukrainian drone strikes, but customers will have to pay for the innovation. Before that, the company irretrievably lost almost 3% of its data

Previously, Yandex Cloud did not have backup of new virtual data enabled by default. Yandex decided to change this only after Ukrainian drone strikes on its data centers, when almost 3% of customer data was already irretrievably lost. Now Yandex customers will have to pay extra for backup if they do not disable it themselves.

This is reported by The Register.

Yandex explains the data loss by critical equipment damage and the lack of backups on the platform. Now, backups will be enabled automatically for new virtual machines. However, backups require additional cloud resources, which customers will pay for.

Additionally, according to Yandex Cloud documentation, in some cases, even after deleting a virtual machine, the client may continue to be charged. To stop charging, you must separately disable it from backup and delete the saved copies, which are also charged for.

Earlier, dev.ua wrote that after Ukrainian drone strikes on three Yandex data centers, Russians began to complain more often about the work of the voice assistant "Alice". In two weeks, the number of complaints has increased by about five times. Users report that the assistant freezes, incorrectly places accents, gets confused in answers, and sometimes ignores questions altogether.