Second wave of internet outages hits Russia after attack on Yandex data center
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Operations at Yandex’s data center in Sasovo, Ryazan Oblast,
were completely suspended after a drone
attack on the facility, the company said on Oct. 8.
“The extent of the damage to the infrastructure is still
being assessed. For now, we cannot confirm whether the equipment at the Sasovo
data center can be restored,” Yandex said in a statement.
The facility is one of Yandex’s five data centers and houses
two of the company’s three supercomputers used to train its AI models.
A second wave of widespread outages has affected Russia’s
internet. According to outage-monitoring service Sboy.rf, users reported
problems with banks, social media platforms, telecommunications providers,
email services, Avito, the Russian Railways website, online retailers, and
Rostelecom.
Of more than 70 Yandex cloud services, 38 became
unavailable.
Cryptocurrency exchange Rapira said access to its services
had been “temporarily disrupted because of a power outage on the cloud
provider’s side.” The company referred to Yandex’s page on Downdetector.
Corporate systems at the Higher School of Economics,
Wildberries, and Ozon also experienced disruptions. The first wave of outages
ended relatively quickly.
The domino effect that caused problems across the Russian
internet throughout the day may have been linked to an effort to redistribute
server capacity after the fire in Sasovo.
The overall extent of the damage remains unclear. Yandex
shares had already fallen by more than 3%, according to Moscow Exchange data.
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