3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

For people who are “worried” that Ukraine targets data centers: Ukraine did not start it.

For the entire September, Russia conducted 10+ strikes on all key telecom, and internet provider data centers in Ukraine.

Now it is just a return

If you want to help Ukraine, here is a list of the largest volunteer funds you can donate to:

Come Back Alive - delivered the first deep-strike drones https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation - bought the famous spy satellite https://prytulafoundation.org/en

KOLO Charity Foundation - run by the Ukrainian tech community https://www.koloua.com/en/

Razom - US-based foundation https://www.razomforukraine.org/donate/

Canada-Ukraine Foundation - Canadian NGO, organizes winter aid for civilians https://www.cufoundation.ca/

Ukrainian World Congress https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/

Exen - Polish volunteer who delivers used vehicles to the front https://pomagam.pl/4x4dlaukrainy

United24 - the government fund https://u24.gov.ua/

Blue/Yellow - Lithuanian NGO supplying the Ukrainian military https://blue-yellow.lt/en/

Stopify - Latvian initiative, donations collected via Ziedot.lv https://stopify.org.ua/

Weapons to Ukraine - Czech initiative https://weaponstoukraine.com/en

Help99 - from Estonia's LIFT99 startup hub, convoys refitted trucks and drones to the front https://www.help99.co/donate

Aktion Deutschland Hilft - German humanitarian aid https://www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de/

Thanks to everyone who suggested additions. Please keep adding foundations from your country in the comments.

Russia used to be quite advanced in information technology. At one point they prided themselves on being one of only four nations with Internet-scale search engines IIRC. Their little military operation already cost them lots of talent. And now they are actively losing infra too. Nice.

Great! More news like this

Maybe this would remind ordinary russians that killing innocent civilians every day in Kyiv is not good

Data centers are becoming higher priority targets in wars recently, and with humans delegating more to AI, I suspect their priority will increase even further.

Makes me wonder how much compute is already being built in bunkers under mountains.

From a purely engineering perspective, this and the destroyed AWS datacenters in the Middle East show an interesting trend. How will it affect the way future datacenters and services hosted in them are built? Will we see a rise in decentralized systems and much larger networks of smaller DCs?

BBC story linked to this chart which is pretty interesting:

>Internet Connectivity for AS200350 (YandexCloud)

https://ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/asn/200350?from=1791331...

I like how the status reports are informative and rater detailed. I recently dealt with outages of my own German webhoster and they didn't even have a status page. I had to email their support to get some details (at least they replied very quickly :) )

Russia, if you value your stuff you should not start wars you are not prepared to fight.

Yandex is one of the most notoriously pro-western companies in Russia, actively supporting relocation attempts. They even removed Russian borders from their maps in 2022. Some people claim they do this day have intelligence sharing agreements with Ukraine.

Also, Yandex have a ban on any pro-russian ads and pro-military stuff (curiously so, not so much against drugs and crime).

Among other things, they actively lobbied for more internet censorship (because as major player they benefited from being white-listed and not affected by them).

People cheering in this thread do not realize that a lot of patriots in Russia will actually support full Yandex demolition.

Oh well. Some people never learn.

https://status.yandex.cloud/

There goes Kagi's results provider. :-P

Anybody have an idea how this insanity can ever end? Seems Russia is willing to kill off a whole generation of young people. Will this just go on forever? Or will Ukraine run out of soldiers?

Should likely share https://status.yandex.cloud/en/timeline as well, though it only shows two of them being hit, not three.

Nice! Keep it up boys!

BBC News story on this topic https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw0k0g57mk3zo

So three important data centers strategically chosen to be destroyed? As far as i know such an loss couldn't even Google compensate, let alone Yandex. This could severely impact their economy for months.

3rd cloud data center so far.

Just in time to derail Russian disinformation before the election.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russ...

I'll be curious to see how it affects the mood around HN.

EDIT: How curious - the article above removed all mention of disinformation - but you can still see it in the URL....

Oh lord, this whole thread reads like an NSA/Mossad back and forth.

Everything in Russia depends on Yandex. The impact on both businesses and daily life is massive. You can’t order a taxi or food delivery in most parts of Russia now. Retail chains POS systems in stores and payment systems are down too. Russians on threads and Twitter are complaining they can’t even buy things in stores. Of course, Putin himself doesn’t understand the impact because he barely knows how to use a computer and never uses the Internet.

Yandex is pretty good search engine. It has zero censorship. Just the raw internet. Sometimes it more than I've bargained for but as a user I'm happy the option exists.

The severity of the attacks on Russian borders have I believe still a limited effect on the course of the war, but I suppose it certainly won't hurt Ukraine's chances to in some form survive this war.

this is actually crazy, but absolutely a predictable outcome

shouldn't these be underground? would it even matter if they were, ukraine would just make mole drones..

That's great!

Is https://habr.com normally down?

data centers are civilian targets and globally very poorly defended. if this starts to escalate.. you think ram is expensive now..

No wonder internet is so nice today. Hope they'll keep it up.

Is Kagi search still (partially?) relying on Yandex?

So they're migrating from on premise to cloud. Good

Guess it’s just a matter of “when” most datacenters on the MiddleEast will be hit.

Soon Trump will tell us that memory is so expensive due to Ukrainians hitting Yandex.

Finally good news from Russia!

They should start putting data centers underground like deep under central park

What's an alternative way to find torrents if Yandex goes down?

The communication from Yandex regarding these incidents seems very refreshing compared to what we usually see from big tech. They seem very realistic about what customers should expect and what measures they should take. I wish this were more common these days.

Good.

Massive data/compute centers should be replace to lot of mini data/compute centers in our homes.

How many major DCs are there in Russia?

tough luck

Good

Now it's time to strike data centers of antisocial media and AI companies. They are doing even more harm to the world.

But how on earth are they able to penetrate through all their defensives

Funny all the Americans here saying Fuck Russia, yet their own president is currently invading multiple countries per year...

Looks like Yandex is going to be taken over by the state for not investing in air defences. (There is a new law in russia that specifically allows confiscation of businesses that do not invest in air defenses.)

Is it yandex ir nebius?:)

I wonder what's the impact on the Russian disinformation campaigns?

Can we use it to judge which accounts were bots?

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