Yandex Kaluga Data Center Suffers Outages Following Ukrainian Drone Strike
Multiple modules at Yandex’s Kaluga facility are offline after a drone attack, mirroring recent damage to a Sasovo data center.
Key points
- Yandex’s Kaluga data center has multiple modules completely out of service.
- The outage follows a similar Ukrainian drone strike on a facility in Sasovo.
- The Sasovo incident knocked offline parts of a 1.4 million square foot campus.
Multiple modules at a Yandex data center in Kaluga, Russia, are currently out of service. The outage occurred following a Ukrainian drone strike on the facility, according to a report by Tom’s Hardware.
The attack on the Kaluga site mirrors a recent incident at a Yandex facility in Sasovo. That earlier strike targeted the largest data center in Russia. The Sasovo campus covers approximately 1.4 million square feet. Multiple parts of that larger facility were knocked offline by the drone impact.
Context and Background
The Kaluga outage represents a continuation of infrastructure targeting in the region. The Sasovo facility is identified as the largest data center in Russia. The drone strike there resulted in significant operational disruption. Multiple distinct sections of the 1.4 million square foot campus lost service.
The timing of the Kaluga incident follows closely on the heels of the Sasovo attack. Both facilities are operated by Yandex, a major Russian technology company. The reports indicate that the physical damage has led to complete service loss in specific modules. This suggests a pattern of sustained pressure on critical digital infrastructure.
Who Is Affected
Yandex is the primary operator affected by these physical attacks. The company manages large-scale data centers across Russia. The Kaluga facility hosts multiple modules that are now offline. Users and services relying on these specific modules have lost access.
The Sasovo facility also experienced widespread outages. The scale of the Sasovo campus implies significant capacity loss. The 1.4 million square foot site likely hosts critical services. Disruption at this scale impacts both internal operations and external customers.
What should you do?
Organizations relying on Russian-based infrastructure should monitor service status closely. Physical attacks on data centers can cause sudden, unplanned outages. Businesses should verify the geographic location of their data storage. Redundancy plans should account for physical infrastructure risks.
What to do and how to stay safe
- Review the geographic distribution of your cloud services and data storage.
- Verify that your disaster recovery plans account for physical infrastructure attacks.
General security guidance from the Threat Times newsroom. It is not confirmed advice from the organisations named in this story.
