A battlefield strike on Yandex Cloud left 2.84% of customer data permanently lost because backups were not enabled by default. Yandex has changed policy to enable automatic backups for new virtual machines and opened a new geographically separate availability zone to mitigate future losses.
— The incident reframes default cloud settings as a public‑policy and national‑security issue: providers' defaults determine societal resilience to kinetic attacks and may justify regulatory mandates or new industry norms for default disaster‑recovery settings.
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2026.11.11
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Yandex’s admission that 2.84% of customer data is irrecoverable, coupled with its shift to enabling automatic backups by default and adding a new availability zone.
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