Kazakhstan explains disruptions to Yandex services after attacks on Russian servers
- Following Ukrainian drone strikes, Yandex Pay and Yandex Taxi are experiencing widespread disruptions, with roughly 435,000 users reporting problems over the past 24 hours according to DownDetector data cited by Verstka.
- Ukrainian drone attacks targeted three of Yandex's four major data centers in Sasovo, Kaluga, and Vladimir, disrupting infrastructure across multiple services. Reports indicate the strikes may have disabled significant supercomputing capacity.
- Drivers in Moscow and Yekaterinburg are using Google Maps or Waze after receiving notifications within Yandex Pro, while reporting delays in trip status updates and reduced earnings as bonuses fail to appear.
- Dmitry Pirogov, head of Yandex Pay's fintech division, announced that access to transfers is being restored gradually, though he stressed the service "is still operating unstably."
- Recovery is taking longer as engineers rebuild infrastructure to preserve transaction data; users experiencing limited functionality must "wait a little longer," according to the payment service's Telegram channel.
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Attacks with Ukrainian drones on Yandex data centers caused failures in apps, payments and cloud in Russia. The company suspended fees and suffered a sharp drop in the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The malfunctions affected taxis and dozens of other services.
Yandex Waives Cloud and Software Fees After Ukrainian Drone Attacks on Data Centers
Russian tech giant Yandex has waived fees for its cloud computing and virtual office suite through the end of October as engineers work to restore services damaged in Ukrainian drone attacks on data centers. “We understand that right now it’s important for you to focus on your own tasks, so we’re taking on the costs of cloud and collaboration tools ourselves,” Yandex B2B Tech said in a statement Tuesday.
Russia’s Yandex Taxi Gets Knocked Offline and Turns to Google Maps for Help
Yandex Taxi has begun advising drivers to use Google Maps or Waze after a series of strikes on the company’s Russian data centers was followed by widespread disruptions across its services, according to Russian outlet Verstka on October 12.
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