Russian Cloud Provider Yandex Cloud Reports 2.84% Permanent Data Loss After Drone Strikes, Mandates Default Backups
Yandex Cloud confirmed that 2.84% of customer data was irrecoverable following Ukrainian drone attacks on its data centers and has enforced default backups for all new virtual machines.
Russian cloud provider Yandex Cloud updated its customers via a blog post, stating that it had “restored access to more than 97% of customer data” following extensive damage to its data centers from Ukrainian drone strikes. The firm admitted that “the remaining 2.84% cannot be restored due to critical damage to equipment.”
Yandex attributed part of this unrecoverable loss to the lack of customer backups, noting that users who utilized Yandex Cloud’s backup tools “did not lose any data.” In response, the company has changed its policy so that “currently, all virtual machines created in Yandex Cloud work with the backup function enabled by default.” Additionally, Yandex opened a new availability zone, ru-central1-f, at an undisclosed location to improve fault tolerance.