Yandex said drones hit a major data centre in Russia's Ryazan region, starting a fire and forcing a full suspension of the site, while core consumer services kept running.
Drones hit a major data centre owned by Yandex in Russia's Ryazan region, the company said on Thursday, Reuters reported. Yandex said the strike caused a fire and forced it to suspend the centre's operations fully. The company said it was dealing with the consequences and restoring affected services.
Yandex said its core consumer services were not affected. Reuters noted that the company runs YandexGPT, one of Russia's leading generative AI models. On the Yandex Cloud website, the company said there were problems with the electricity supply at one data-centre zone and recommended that customers use other zones.
Reuters described the strike as the first confirmed major attack on a Russian data hub in the war with Ukraine. It said the strike followed a wave of Russian attacks on Ukrainian data centres in recent weeks. The dispatch did not give a casualty count or a count of servers taken offline.
The account rests on Yandex's statement. Reuters credited reporting by Gleb Stolyarov and writing by Gleb Bryanski. It did not quote a same-day claim of responsibility.
Restoration of the affected zone was the next step the company described. No timetable for reopening the site was included in the Reuters report.
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- Yandex said core consumer services were not affected.
- The company told Yandex Cloud customers to use other zones because of an electricity problem at one zone.