Uzum Market Operations Halted After Data Center Fire
A fire at a Yandex data center forced a cross-zone migration of workloads, disrupting logistics across Uzbekistan.
Updated on Oct. 8, 2026 in Data Centers
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Uzum Market experienced a major technical outage on 8 October, forcing the company to halt goods acceptance and return issuance. The disruption followed a fire at a Yandex data center in Sasovo, Russia, which Russian media outlets have linked to a drone attack.
Why it matters
The incident demonstrates the fragility of regional cloud dependencies, where a power supply disruption at a single availability zone can cascade into warehouse and order processing failures across an entire national market.
Yandex Cloud reported a power supply disruption within the ru-central1-b availability zone, forcing an emergency migration of workloads to alternative zones.
The players
Uzum Market
An Uzbek marketplace operator managing integrated warehouse logistics and e-commerce seller accounts.
Yandex Cloud
A cloud infrastructure provider offering compute, storage, and database services across multiple availability zones.
The details
The outage was triggered by a physical failure at a Yandex data center located in Sasovo, in the Ryazan region of Russia. This physical disruption cascaded into technical failures within Uzum Market’s core infrastructure, halting operations for seller accounts, warehouse management systems, and physical order pickup points. Yandex Cloud responded by shifting virtual machine instances and services to unaffected availability zones—distinct locations with independent power and cooling—to restore functionality.
Timeline
8 October: Uzum Market experienced a major technical outage.
The Tech Race
This incident follows the pattern of regional service disruption established by large-scale infrastructure failures in data centers. It underscores the critical reliance of modern marketplaces on cloud-native failover architectures.
Sellers and customers currently cannot process orders or handle returns, though undelivered orders are eligible for rescheduling without penalties. Users should monitor official company channels for updates on when warehouse operations will resume.
The takeaway
Reliability in modern e-commerce depends on how quickly service providers can evacuate workloads during physical emergencies. Readers should check their order status on the marketplace portal to confirm eligibility for penalty-free rescheduling.
Further reading
For broader context on how infrastructure failures impact regional uptime, explore our Data Centers coverage.
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