Strikes on Yandex Data Centers Disrupt Russia's Cloud and AI Services

A series of Ukrainian drone attacks has knocked out a Yandex data center in the Vladimir region, following earlier strikes on facilities in Kaluga and Sasovo. Reports cite outages of Yandex Cloud, the Alice voice assistant, Yandex Music, Telemost, and banking and rideshare apps.

• The third attack on Yandex caused a complete shutdown of its data center in the Vladimir region
• Earlier strikes hit facilities in Kaluga and Sasovo, home to two of three supercomputers used for AI model training
• Outages reported for Alice assistant, Yandex Music, Telemost and Yandex Compute Cloud
• Users report failures in banking and rideshare apps, plus Magnit and Fix Price services