Yandex Cloud has restored access to 97.16% of customer data following damage to data centres in October. The remainder cannot be recovered, Russian media report, citing the company.
Yandex attributes the losses to critical hardware damage and missing customer backups. It says customers using the platform’s backup tools retained all their data.
Backups are now enabled by default for newly created virtual machines, with an opt-out option. The company is also spreading computing resources across independent locations in different regions. These changes address future resilience rather than recovery of data already lost.
