Yandex data center attacks leave cloud customers without a clear recovery timeline

Yandex says its setup is unstable after drone strikes damaged three data centers, and it is telling customers to rely on other disaster-recovery plans.

Yandex says drone attacks damaged three of its data centers, forcing two sites offline and leaving a third degraded, which has disrupted cloud access for customers. The company identified the affected facilities as Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir, hit on October 8, October 9 and October 11. Yandex has warned customers that its current setup is unstable and says there is no dependable timetable for restoring service, so it is urging people to use other disaster-recovery infrastructure. The outages have affected core services including cloud storage and parts of its platform, while Yandex says it has not reported injuries and has not said whether any stored data was lost permanently.