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Russia’s Google says nearly 3% of its data was lost after crippling Ukraine drone strikes, opens secret availability zones
Tom's Hardware · By Mark Tyson ·
The Brief
- Yandex says it restored access to more than 97% of customer cloud data after drone strikes damaged its data centers.
- Nearly 3% of customer data was lost, according to the reporting, and Yandex Cloud blames the lack of user backups.
- Yandex Cloud now applies backup rules by default and has opened previously secret availability zones.
Why it matters
Losing customer data after physical damage to data centers shows that single-region storage without backups is a real risk, even for large providers.
Who’s affected
- Yandex Cloud customers
What to do
- Verify that your own backups exist independently of the provider's infrastructure, especially for data stored in Yandex Cloud
Yandex, sometimes called Russia’s Google, has updated its customers in the wake of extensive damage to its data centers in drone strikes . In a blog post this week, the firm’s cloud business boasted that it had “restored access to more than 97% of customer data” [machine…
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Yandex cloud business published a blog post reporting restored access to more than 97% of customer data after drone strikes
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Russia’s Google says nearly 3% of its data was lost after crippling Ukraine drone strikes, opens secret availability zones