A cyber expert spoke about the consequences of the attack on the Yandex data center
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- Cyber expert Arseny Shcheltsin reported that Yandex services are operating normally after the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack on a data center in the Ryazan region.
- According to him, the company's cloud power architecture allows it to switch between servers in the event of failures.
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Why It Matters
On the night of October 8, a power outage occurred in one of the Yandex data centers due to an attack.
There are currently no difficulties in Yandex services, noted the head of the Digital Platforms ANO, cyber expert Arseny Shcheltsin. This is how a specialist spoke about the consequences of the attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on a data center in the Ryazan region in a conversation with Lenta.ru.
“As far as I know, this is not the only data center, but one of the key ones that works in the Yandex.Cloud scheme. But Yandex.Cloud is actively expanding. Accordingly, there is a lot of capacity there. Moreover, Yandex.Cloud is a separate direction from the main Yandex services,” said Shcheltsin.
The cyber expert added that at the moment everything is working as usual, and difficulties arose immediately at the time of the attack.
“Technically, data centers are designed in such a way that when one group of servers is overloaded or fails, another group connects. There is a golden rule: do not duplicate services in the same racks or maybe even in the same data centers, just in case of unforeseen events,” he concluded.
On the night of Thursday, October 8, Yandex reported that there was a power outage in one of the company’s data centers. It was clarified that due to the incident, there were disruptions in the operation of several company services.
Open Questions
- What is the extent of equipment damage in the data center?
