Putin says Russian companies can now use foreign data centers following wave of major Ukraine drone strikes
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Drone strikes taking out multiple Yandex data centers and triggering a policy shift to foreign hosting underline how physical vulnerability is now a first-order cloud risk. If your disaster recovery plan assumes domestic redundancy is enough, revisit it with cross-border and geopolitical exposure in mind.
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