Outage
Russian cloud Yandex says drone attacks on its datacenters caused data loss
The Register · By Simon Sharwood ·
The Brief
- Yandex has admitted that a drone attack on one of its datacenters caused data loss.
- The attack happened in early October and caused a fire and a subsequent outage in the ru-central1-b availability zone.
- Ukrainian press said the attack was ordered by Kyiv; this attribution is not confirmed by the source.
Why it matters
Customers whose workloads ran in the affected Yandex Cloud availability zone may have lost data, which shows that a single availability zone can be a point of failure.
Who’s affected
- Yandex Cloud customers using ru-central1-b
Russian cloud operator Yandex has admitted to data loss after a drone attack on one of its datacenters. The attack, which Ukrainian press said was ordered by Kyiv, happened in early October and caused a fire and subsequent outage at Yandex’s ru-central1-b availability zone…