Yandex says drone attack shut Sasovo data centre; main services still running

Yandex said its data centre in Sasovo, in Russia’s Ryazan region, was completely shut down after a drone attack caused a fire overnight into 8 October. Part of the facility’s infrastructure was affected, nobody was injured and staff were dealing with the aftermath, the company told RBC. [2]

The site’s shutdown does not mean all Yandex services are offline. The company said its main services were operating normally, although some services might be unavailable. Reuters reported a power-supply problem in one Yandex Cloud zone and said customers had been advised to use other zones. A Yandex Cloud warning relayed by ASTRA said customers might also have trouble creating virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters and databases in other zones. [3] [4] [6]

Separately, network monitor NetBlocks reported a significant disruption to Yandex’s network, without quantifying its reach or establishing that the fire caused it. Vedomosti reported 1,500 complaints to an outage monitor over 24 hours, including 333 in the final hour of its snapshot. Complaints are not a count of affected users. [5] [8]