alt Hacker NewsYandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
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From reddit - "Right now, Yandex's biggest services are down: taxis, delivery, and Alisa. Moscow is paralyzed; it's impossible to order a taxi. Orders aren't going through."
https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1x1q...
Damn, this would have been a good argument for the US to fund Ukrainian long-distance operations, had Russia not been so far behind in the AI race already.
Should we call it "Yandex experiment" from now on? Because it seems like the experiment didn't go well:
April 27, 2020:
"Yandex highlighted negative articles about Navalny in its search results; the company called it an "experiment."
https://zona-media.translate.goog/news/2020/04/27/navyandex?...
The Internet is almost 100% packet switching, a technique that someone brilliant in ARPA came up with the idea of claiming it was intended for nuclear warfare survival, in order to ensure funding.
“Data centers” need not be hyper-centralized. There’s an economy of scale of course, both in the building itself and in very local transmission. But all scale curves have knees, and one is survivability.
It’s possible a bunch of smaller 10 MW DCs might be faster to build, more survivable, and easier to get approved while being perfectly acceptable for most workloads.
New Startup idea - private anti-air batteries for data centers
Seems like a mistake to stagger these hits, doing both in the same hour could have taken out backups before they had a chance to replicate elsewhere.
Don't worry - this could never happen to your cloud provider.
It's a totally different situation - they're at war.
Interesting to see this and the targeting of data centers in the Middle East. Its critical infrastructure and a hit gets the attacker a lot of bang for the buck in terms of economic damage.
A new reason to not want a DC in my neighborhood.
How effective are the western embargos? Will it be possible for them to replace destroyed hardware?
Nebius Slack channels going wild now
"United24Media" is mostly just Ukrainian military propaganda. I wouldn't trust it given some of their other articles.
Here's a better source: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-yandex-says-sec...
Ukraine also hit Russian oil refineries. The EU buys lots of Russian oil....
What is a Russian citizen supposed to do? I fear most Russians will just turn on Ukraine, as now they have tangible "evidence" that maybe Putin was right all along.
The ideal is turning on Putin, but what does that even look like? The guy has 9 layers of isolation, a carefully curated and frequently culled leadership, and a robust propaganda department.
So at the breaking point, will Russians storm the capital or storm Ukraine?
If only Ukraine could understand that it is actually doing Russian citizens a favor.
Am I the only one thinking just blurring the site is a little naive? It's relatively trivial to extrapolate the centers of the blobs from a blur. Pretty strange thing picking up a ticket to obfuscate your company's data centers on the map to protect them against drone attacks and then kind of just phoning it in
Imagine when something hits us-east-1 as part of the opening shot of a major future conflict..
someone go correlate whether this leads to a drop in bot/AI traffic.
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American and European data center providers should start thinking about design for resiliency versus drone and missile strikes.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/drone-and-data-ce...