Yandex Restores Taxi, Delivery and Mobility Services After Major Infrastructure Outage
Yandex has confirmed that its main transport and delivery services are now accessible to all users after a major infrastructure outage.
The company reported that ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, car-sharing, electric scooters, and smartphone charging have been restored. Additional services including Lavka, Zapravki, and Transport have also returned to standard operation.
Restoration is proceeding in stages. On 11 October, Yandex restored access to search, Alice, Maps, Mail, and other platforms while noting that certain functions remained limited. Some capabilities within Yandex 360, such as Disk, were deliberately disabled to reduce system load.
For existing customers of Yandex Cloud and Yandex 360, the company is providing free resource usage across Russian availability zones from 8 to 31 October, with automatic recalculation of charges.
Director of Strategic Marketing Andrei Sebrant noted that the outage proved more severe than the single data-center loss scenario rehearsed during company exercises.
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