r/technology: Yandex bot traffic collapses after Ukrainian drone strikes on its data centers
A war story measured in web traffic, and how Reddit read it.
The post links Tom's Hardware's report that, after Ukrainian strikes knocked out Yandex data centers in Sasovo and Kaluga, Cloudflare measured bot traffic from Yandex's network falling to 0.4% of its two-week peak, and NetBlocks reported Yandex Cloud traffic at 30% of normal. The report says the strikes respond to Russian attacks on Kyiv data centers. Top replies, with about 17,000 and 14,000 upvotes, celebrated the drop in Russian bot traffic. The post drew about 82,000 upvotes; the same story also ranked in r/cybersecurity.
-
Yandex
After exploring Russian disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers, the company whose data centers were hit is Yandex.
Russia's largest search engine company, with an estimated 72% share at home, plus cloud, maps, taxis and more.
Wikipedia · Wade · 5 min
0