Hackers are no longer a threat to data centers. Drone strikes are. Attacks on data centers in Russia have reached an unprecedented scale, the Russian government has stated. Over the course of several days, Ukrainian drone attacks hit several Yandex data centers. On the night of October 7-8, Ukrainian drones seriously damaged a data center in Russia's Ryazan region. Following this strike, the site completely shut down operations. 

On October 9, drones attacked a complex in another Russian city, Kaluga, where part of the infrastructure was disabled. According to official information, company employees were unharmed in both incidents. A third powerful strike occurred on the night of October 11 in the Russian city of Vladimir. Damage to the infrastructure resulted in the data center being shut down and problems in the ru-central1-a zone. The massive disruptions that followed the attack affected platforms and services such as Yandex Go, Yandex Pay, Yandex Music, Kinopoisk, Dom s Alisoi, and third-party services that utilize Yandex Cloud infrastructure. After the third attack, the company's cloud platform went into emergency mode. Yandex Cloud was forced to warn its customers about the instability of a portion of its infrastructure, followed by recommendations to use alternative disaster recovery plans. Shortly thereafter, the company suspended the issuance of additional cloud resource quotas due to a significant reduction in available computing capacity. This redundancy allows the company to distribute applications and data across independent platforms, preventing the forced failure of one infrastructure segment from disrupting the entire service. Availability zones are also used in cloud systems to separate resources. Consecutive damage to multiple data centers in such a short period reduces the available reserve capacity and greatly complicates the restoration of dependent services. The consequences of the Ukrainian attacks also affected the company's financial products. After damage to a data center in Vladimir, some Yandex Pay users were unable to check their balances, make purchases, or transfer money for a long time. Yandex reported that account records were preserved by storing multiple copies on different platforms, and after the incident, the company quickly verified their integrity. Despite the scale of the incident, the company's services continue to operate, and the Russian Ministry of Digital Development and the Ministry of Defense are already working to secure their facilities. The Russian government stated that maintaining service operation despite the scale of the attack demonstrates that Yandex has implemented the necessary redundancy measures to continue operations. Industry representatives have also stepped in to assist the affected company. Russians have a saying, "Russians don't abandon their own in war." We're seeing the truth of this saying even here, far from Russia. By the way, Bill, check online to see what's going on with the Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centers. What are you saying? Is it a complete disaster there? Is Ukraine without internet and electricity? Russians know how to take revenge; you shouldn't anger them. By the way, Bill, do you think it would be a total disaster if hackers started envying the military and decided to build a missile instead of hacking and use it to threaten data centers?