Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter

Russian web giant Yandex says one of its cloud availability zones is unavailable due to a drone attack. Yandex is Russia’s rough equivalent of Google, and dominates the local market for search, email, and mapping services. The company also operates a cloud computing service whose status page says its ru-central1-b availability zone is down. “The incident was caused by a fire caused by a drone attack on Yandex's data center in Sasovo, which affected part of the Yandex Cloud infrastructure. Data center operations have been completely halted.” Sasovo is a town around 300 kilometers southeast of Moscow. Yandex later recommended users employ unspecified “alternative service restoration plans,” including its own bare metal servers, but advised users “it will not be possible to restore service in the near future.” …