3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
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A Ukrainian UAV strike destroyed Yandex's third data center in Vladimir, disrupting most cloud services.
Yandex Cloud's data center in Vladimir was completely suspended after a UAV attack on October 11. No casualties were reported. Services remain in emergency mode with partial availability: Console and API up; Compute partially up; Managed Databases mostly failed over but some read-only; S3 read-available with write issues; Yandex Monium entirely unavailable; Kubernetes, Container Registry, AI Studio, and Security services partially available. Technical support channels are unstable, and quota increases are suspended. Next updates scheduled for Moscow time.
What commenters are saying
Commenters note this is Yandex's third major data center struck within days (Sasovo, Kaluga, Vladimir), and some believe Yandex operates only three main centers out of five total. One commenter argues the strikes may remind ordinary Russians of the war's consequences, while another points out that most Russians cannot openly oppose the war without prison. Separately, a technical discussion emerges about whether future data centers will be built underground, decentralized, or even in space.