Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours

lapkaaaa

New Startup idea - private anti-air batteries for data centers

cyanydeez

someone go correlate whether this leads to a drop in bot/AI traffic.

thinkcontext

Interesting to see this and the targeting of data centers in the Middle East. Its critical infrastructure and a hit gets the attacker a lot of bang for the buck in terms of economic damage.

arpinum

Seems like a mistake to stagger these hits, doing both in the same hour could have taken out backups before they had a chance to replicate elsewhere.

pftburger

Am I the only one thinking just blurring the site is a little naive? It's relatively trivial to extrapolate the centers of the blobs from a blur. Pretty strange thing picking up a ticket to obfuscate your company's data centers on the map to protect them against drone attacks and then kind of just phoning it in

WarmWash

What is a Russian citizen supposed to do? I fear most Russians will just turn on Ukraine, as now they have tangible "evidence" that maybe Putin was right all along. The ideal is turning on Putin, but what does that even look like? The guy has 9 layers of isolation, a carefully curated and frequently culled leadership, and a robust propaganda department. So at the breaking point, will Russians storm the capital or storm Ukraine?

renyicircle

Damn, this would have been a good argument for the US to fund Ukrainian long-distance operations, had Russia not been so far behind in the AI race already.

pi-rat

Imagine when something hits us-east-1 as part of the opening shot of a major future conflict..

nixass

Nebius Slack channels going wild now

outside1234

They should consider withdrawing from Ukraine

drewg123

How effective are the western embargos? Will it be possible for them to replace destroyed hardware?

PeterCorless

American and European data center providers should start thinking about design for resiliency versus drone and missile strikes. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/drone-and-data-ce...

RIMR

"United24Media" is mostly just Ukrainian military propaganda. I wouldn't trust it given some of their other articles. Here's a better source: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-yandex-says-sec...

nalekberov

If only Ukraine could understand that it is actually doing Russian citizens a favor.

RomanPushkin

Should we call it "Yandex experiment" from now on? Because it seems like the experiment didn't go well: April 27, 2020: "Yandex highlighted negative articles about Navalny in its search results; the company called it an "experiment." https://zona-media.translate.goog/news/2020/04/27/navyandex?...

elmer2

Ukraine also hit Russian oil refineries. The EU buys lots of Russian oil....

flerchin

A new reason to not want a DC in my neighborhood.

wewewedxfgdf

Don't worry - this could never happen to your cloud provider. It's a totally different situation - they're at war.

gumby

The Internet is almost 100% packet switching, a technique that someone brilliant in ARPA came up with the idea of claiming it was intended for nuclear warfare survival, in order to ensure funding. “Data centers” need not be hyper-centralized. There’s an economy of scale of course, both in the building itself and in very local transmission. But all scale curves have knees, and one is survivability. It’s possible a bunch of smaller 10 MW DCs might be faster to build, more survivable, and easier to get approved while being perfectly acceptable for most workloads.

ortusdux

From reddit - "Right now, Yandex's biggest services are down: taxis, delivery, and Alisa. Moscow is paralyzed; it's impossible to order a taxi. Orders aren't going through." https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1x1q...