Russian cloud Yandex says drone attacks on its datacenters caused data loss
Drone and missile strikes have inflicted unprecedented damage on data centers in Eastern Europe and the Middle East this year, disrupting cloud services for millions of people and permanently deleting some Amazon Web Services customer data.
Key points
- Russian cloud operator Yandex has admitted to data loss after a drone attack on one of its datacenters.
- Indeed, Yandex’s announcement of its recovery efforts links to a page extolling the virtues of a hybrid cloud when devising data protection strategies.
- On Tuesday, Yandex posted an update on its recovery efforts, which it spun as something of a triumph because it restored over 97 percent of customer data.
Jarnecki has done extensive research on how Ukraine strengthened its cloud resilience with Western partners despite facing both cyberattacks and kinetic attacks at the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, and explored what that means for NATO and European governments’ cloud adoption plans.
Additional details
- Yandex didn’t say where it’s located, other than to say it’s in “a new location.” Interestingly, Yandex has imposed quotas that limit the amount of resources users can access in the new availability zone and says it can’t yet handle traffic to private endpoints at the new facility.
- That decision will mean customers will consume and pay for more Yandex resources, unless they opt out of the automated backups.
- Subsequent strikes targeted more Yandex datacenters and disrupted more of the company’s cloud and payment services.
- Whatever happened, Yandex has decided to enable backups by default for all VMs customers create in its cloud.
- The attack, which Ukrainian press said was ordered by Kyiv, happened in early October and caused a fire and subsequent outage at Yandex’s ru-central1-b availability zone.
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