[Regnum] Yandex's data center in Vladimir has completely shut down due to damage sustained in a drone attack. This was reported bythe Yandex Cloud press service on October 11.
Some services are unavailable, and the remaining resources are unstable. The platform has been switched to emergency mode.
Yandex Cloud recommended that customers use backup recovery plans and alternative resources. However, contact with technical support may also be unstable.
There were no casualties as a result of the attack. Emergency services are on the scene. Company specialists are assessing the damage and determining how to restore the data center's operations.
On October 8, Ukrainian Armed Forces drones attacked a similar facility in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast. A fire broke out, damaging some of the infrastructure, and shutting down the data center.
On October 9, Yandex's Kaluga data center was hit, with several modules failing. That same day, some functions of the Alice AI assistant were temporarily unavailable. Due to infrastructure damage, neural network responses may be delayed.
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Russia experienced a major outage affecting mobile apps and websites.
A major outage of mobile apps and websites occurred in Russia on October 11, according to data from the Sboi.RF service.
In particular, Russians are complaining en masse about the performance of services such as Kinopoisk, IVI, Yandex Go, Yandex Pay, Vkusno i Tochka, M-Video, Delivery Club, Lamoda, Wildberries, and many others. Thousands of users across the country are reporting outages.
The peak number of calls occurred between 8:00 and 10:00 AM Moscow time. The largest number of outages were recorded in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Sverdlovsk region.
Later, the situation began to stabilize, and services began reporting that the issues had been resolved.