Yandex confirms data loss after a data center strike.
Russian cloud provider Yandex says drone attacks on its data centers have led to the loss of customer data. The company states that it has recovered over 97% of customer data, implying that 2.84% was lost due to critical hardware damage and missing platform backups. It has now enabled VM backups by default and launched a new availability zone, ru-central1-f, with resource quotas and limited support for private endpoints.
The update shows physical vulnerabilities that translated into continuous degradation of the cloud layer, not just temporary outages. Default backups and limited capacity in the new region indicate recovery gaps, reduced resiliency and a more restrictive operating environment for a large Russian cloud and payments provider.
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