Yandex says a drone strike shut down a third data center, disrupting 80+ services like Yandex Cloud and YandexGPT; users report banking and taxi app outages (Tymur Dubovyk/Kyiv Post)

A drone strike that took down a Yandex data center disrupted more than 80 services, including Yandex Cloud and YandexGPT, and spilled over into consumer-facing systems such as banking and taxi apps. For CIOs, the incident is a reminder that physical infrastructure failures can rapidly become enterprise-wide and ecosystem-wide outages, underscoring the need for stronger geographic redundancy, resilience planning, and dependency mapping across critical digital services.