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Yandex is the leading Russian-language search engine and operates cloud infrastructure as well as taxi and delivery services. It is dominant in the Russian-speaking world. The company had already reported damage to its data centers in Kaluga and Sassovo earlier in the week.
Russian tech giant Yandex said on Sunday that its cloud infrastructure was down after a new Ukrainian drone attack on a data center.
âAs a result of a drone attack, the infrastructure of the Vladimir data center (east of Moscow, editor's note) was damaged. Data center operations have been completely disrupted,â the company said on Telegram. The rest of the infrastructure resources âare unstableâ and the platform âis broken,â he specifies. Yandex said there were no casualties in the attack and that repairs were underway.
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Yandex, nicknamed the âRussian Googleâ, is the main search engine in Russian and operates a cloud infrastructure as well as many services, such as taxis and deliveries. It is also dominant in the Russian-speaking world.
Yandex had indicated that its data center located in the city of Kaluga was damaged on Friday, after that of Sassovo on Thursday, respectively 150 km southwest and 300 kilometers southeast of Moscow.
Several computer data centers and infrastructures linked to internet and mobile telephone operators have been targeted by the Russian army in Ukraine over the past three weeks, causing outages.
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