alt Hacker News> The entire compute core is offline, and even worse, Cloud Backup
Their Kazakh regions are available according to the dashboard, so it isn't as catastrophic.
Their managed DBs and data processing services are heavily affected though with no Kazakh redundancies from the looks of it.
The KZ region wasn't intended for Russia's entire workload, that's a secondary region with better Central Asian access.
If what you deduct were correct, Yandex would not be telling its customers to switch to competitora like VK Cloud. They even have a "priority onboarding code" called "CloudBro" for three competitors.