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Yandex AS200350 lost 90% capacity October 11 yet Russia-origin bot share shifted to alternate hosts with no measurable global decline

Yandex AS200350 lost 90% capacity October 11 yet Russia-origin bot share shifted to alternate hosts with no measurable global decline

The Yandex data center strikes produced asymmetric effects on search versus cloud ASNs. Only the cloud ASN hosted unverified automation that relocated rather than ceased. Global bot traffic metrics remained stable because the affected share was below 0.05%.

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Operators tracking bot sources must monitor request fingerprints across all ASNs rather than single-provider volume. Sustained 30-day measurement of scanning rates from former Yandex.Cloud IP ranges will quantify whether any residual displacement persists.

⚡ Prediction

Cloudflare Bot Management: Russia-origin unverified bot share from former Yandex.Cloud ranges will remain below 0.5% of pre-October 11 levels through November 15.

Sources (3)

  • [1]
    Primary Source(https://blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-outage/)
  • [2]
    Supporting Source(https://radar.cloudflare.com/)
  • [3]
    Supporting Source(https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/bots/what-is-bot-traffic/)