Drone Strike Knocks Out Yandex Cloud Data Center in Vladimir
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
A UAV attack damaged Yandex's data center in Vladimir, completely suspending operations and forcing Yandex Cloud into emergency mode. The ru-central1-a and ru-central1-b zones are unavailable, with Compute limited to ru-central1-d and ru-central1-e. Most high-availability database clusters have switched over, but some run read-only or are down; S3 is read-only with write issues, Kubernetes clusters with single-zone masters are offline, and Yandex Monium is unavailable. No casualties were reported.
As a result of the UAV attack, the infrastructure of Yandex's data center in Vladimir was damaged. The data center's operation has been completely suspended.
- vld_chk
For people who are “worried” that Ukraine targets data centers: Ukraine did not start it.
For the entire September, Russia conducted 10+ strikes on all key telecom, and internet provider data centers in Ukraine.
Now it is just a return
- defly
If you want to help Ukraine, here is a list of the largest volunteer funds you can donate to:
Come Back Alive - delivered the first deep-strike drones
Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation - bought the famous spy satellite
https://prytulafoundation.org/en
KOLO Charity Foundation - run by the Ukrainian tech community
Razom - US-based foundation
https://www.razomforukraine.org/donate/
Canada-Ukraine Foundation - Canadian NGO, organizes winter aid for civilians
Ukrainian World Congress
https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/
Exen - Polish volunteer who delivers used vehicles to the front
https://pomagam.pl/4x4dlaukrainy
United24 - the government fund
Blue/Yellow - Lithuanian NGO supplying the Ukrainian military
Stopify - Latvian initiative, donations collected via Ziedot.lv
Weapons to Ukraine - Czech initiative
https://weaponstoukraine.com/en
Help99 - from Estonia's LIFT99 startup hub, convoys refitted trucks and drones to the front
Aktion Deutschland Hilft - German humanitarian aid
https://www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de/
Thanks to everyone who suggested additions. Please keep adding foundations from your country in the comments.
- entropyneur
Russia used to be quite advanced in information technology. At one point they prided themselves on being one of only four nations with Internet-scale search engines IIRC. Their little military operation already cost them lots of talent. And now they are actively losing infra too. Nice.
- elimgta
Great! More news like this
Maybe this would remind ordinary russians that killing innocent civilians every day in Kyiv is not good
- gpt5
Data centers are becoming higher priority targets in wars recently, and with humans delegating more to AI, I suspect their priority will increase even further.
Makes me wonder how much compute is already being built in bunkers under mountains.
- usrnm
From a purely engineering perspective, this and the destroyed AWS datacenters in the Middle East show an interesting trend. How will it affect the way future datacenters and services hosted in them are built? Will we see a rise in decentralized systems and much larger networks of smaller DCs?
- r721
BBC story linked to this chart which is pretty interesting:
>Internet Connectivity for AS200350 (YandexCloud)
https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/asn/200350?from=1791331...
- PowerElectronix
Russia, if you value your stuff you should not start wars you are not prepared to fight.
- KingOfCoders
- siva7
So three important data centers strategically chosen to be destroyed? As far as i know such an loss couldn't even Google compensate, let alone Yandex. This could severely impact their economy for months.