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A third Yandex data-centre shutdown broadens the recovery test
Yandex said its Vladimir data centre stopped operating after an overnight drone attack on October 11, with some services unavailable and no injuries reported. The company had already disclosed a complete shutdown in Sasovo and partial infrastructure loss in Kaluga. Reuters described Vladimir as the third major Yandex data centre taken out of action in several days.
Why it mattersA third independent facility loss can exhaust assumptions built around one-region failover. Engineering leaders should test provider-neutral restores, keep immutable backups and recovery credentials outside the primary control plane, rank services for degraded operation, and verify that portable infrastructure definitions work under simultaneous-site pressure.
Source: Yandex company update / Reuters ↗ · Published October 11, 2026
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