A subsidiary of Yandex, the developer of the virtual computing infrastructure service of the same name, Yandex.Cloud, launched into commercial operation in September 2018.
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History
2025
Plans to enter the top five largest manufacturers of information security solutions in Russia
Yandex Cloud, the cloud division of Yandex, plans to enter the top five Russian information security (IS) solutions providers. Yevgeny [1] Sidorov, director of security at Yandex Cloud, told SecPost about this in early December 2025.
According to him, the company initially focused on ensuring the protection of its own products. However, against the background of growing demand for relevant services from third-party customers, it was decided to develop a family of information security services independently not only for internal needs, but also for external customers. Yandex Cloud provides a suite of managed services that includes Smart Web Security (protecting sites and applications from bots, DDoS attacks and hacking), Yandex Cloud Detection and Response (SOC Incident Monitoring and Response Service), Yandex Identity Hub (centralized management of users and access to enterprise applications via SSO), Certificate Manager (TLS certificate management), Cloud Registry (secure storage and management of software artifacts ), SmartCaptcha ( request verification, protection against bot traffic and content parsing), etc.
In 2026, as Sidorov said, Yandex Cloud will release its own security event management system (SIEM). Users of cloud, hybrid and local infrastructures are named as potential consumers of information security services.
Ivan Shumovsky, Deputy Director of the Clouds and Data Department of Reksoft, notes that the key advantages of Yandex Cloud in terms of information security development are a ready-made ecosystem and a loyal customer base. The number of Yandex Cloud users in the third quarter of 2025 increased by 31%, reaching almost 46 thousand. Among the risks, Shumovsky highlights tough competition from leading information security market players such as Kaspersky Lab and Positive Technologies.[1]
Participate in the Cloud Association
Yandex Cloud, VK Cloud and Flant will create a non-profit Association of Cloud-Oriented Technologies (AOT). AOT will become an organization that will develop new approaches, standards and architecture of native cloud technologies without reference to a specific vendor. Any company using cloud technologies can become an AOT partner, and any IT specialist can become a participant. Yandex Cloud announced this on October 17, 2025. Read more here.
Appointment as head of Grigory Atrepyev
In April 2025, Grigory Atrepyev was appointed head of the Yandex Cloud cloud platform. Prior to his appointment, he served as the company's chief product officer. Read more here.
2024
3rd place in the TAdviser ranking "The largest DBMS developers in Russia"
Yandex Cloud took 3rd place in the ranking "The largest DBMS developers in Russia," prepared by TAdviser in September 2025 based on data on the revenue of companies from projects for the implementation/supply of proprietary database management systems for 2024. Read more here.
Infrastructure problems led to failures at Yandex Eda, Cian.ru, Lamoda, Magnita, Burger King and Delicious - and Point
On November 29, 2024, the Yandex Cloud cloud infrastructure crashed. Because of this, many services have problems, in particular, Yandex Eda, Cian.ru, Lamoda, Magnita, Burger King and Delicious - and Point.
Many users complain about malfunctions in the work of mobile applications and sites of the corresponding services. According to the Downdetector site, failures are observed in several stores and food delivery services, among them: "Tasty - and the point," KFC, Burger King, Dodo Pizza, Cooper, as well as food delivery services from Magnit and Pyaterochka. At the same time, Roskomnadzor announced that unstable work is recorded in a number of banking services and telecom operators.
The problems were also pointed out by Aeroflot"." The reservation system Leonardo Sirena-Travel("") also experienced a glitch, which caused difficulties with the design, re-registration and return of tickets and additional services. It says that "the service provider is taking measures to restore the system to normal operation as soon as possible."
The Yandex Cloud cloud service said that in one of the three availability zones there are "problems with network connectivity," while the other two operate normally. This explains the malfunctions in a number of third-party applications.
 | The incident led to the degradation of the services of some customers. The technical team is already working to fix the incident, Yandex Cloud officials said. |  |
Director of the Investigation Department T.Hunter, market expert NTI Safenet ("Safnet") Igor Bederov says that network connectivity problems can mean failures in network equipment, problems with network cables or ports, as well as network inaccessibility, which occurs including in the event of DDoS attacks. In general, the causes of the failure may vary.[2]
CEO and creator of Yandex Cloud Oleg Koverznev announced his departure from the company
In early November 2024, Oleg Koverznev, CEO and creator of the Yandex Cloud cloud platform, announced his departure from the company. Koverznev, who was at the origins of the Yandex Cloud and was a key platform development manager, posted this on his LinkedIn page, stressing that he intends to continue working with the team as an adviser. Read more here.
Investing 42 billion rubles in the development of cloud services
Yandex Cloud in two years invests 42 billion rubles in product development. The company reported this on September 25, 2024.
We are talking about the costs of developing existing and creating new services and technologies in the period from 2025 to 2026. Similar spending Yandex Cloud in 2023-2024. measured. Thus, the company is going to almost double its investments in its solutions.
As explained in Yandex Cloud, investment growth is due to the high pace of platform development, an increase in the number of users, as well as the expansion of the list of areas of priority for Yandex Cloud - it includes services for working with artificial intelligence technologies, services for managing information security and means of ensuring a full development cycle.
The first area is services for working with artificial intelligence technologies. The company presents AI Studio, a platform that allows you to create applications based on various Yandex AI technologies within a single interface: YandexGPT and YandexART neural networks, speech recognition and synthesis technologies , and so on. Part of the platform will be a library with ready-made code samples - they can be used to speed up the development process.
The second area of investment is tools for managing information security. Yandex Cloud will continue to develop existing solutions in this area, for example, services for protecting against DDoS attacks, and will create completely new ones.
The third area that Yandex Cloud has highlighted is a full-cycle platform for developing and maintaining IT products. It was named SourceCraft. The launch of the platform is scheduled for 2025. It will be possible to create source code and manage versions, as well as assemble, test deploy and accompany IT projects.
Agreement with Ural Federal University and SKB Kontur on training IT specialists
SKB Kontur, Ural Federal University and Yandex Cloud entered into a strategic partnership to train IT specialists. SKB Kontur announced this on July 12, 2024. Read more here.
Cooperation agreement with the accelerator Industrix
The INDUSTRIX accelerator has entered into cooperation agreements with Yandex Cloud and Yandex Practice. This was reported to TAdviser by the press service of Gazprom Neft. The partnership will expand the access of technology startups to innovative online services and help attract IT specialists to the development of oil and gas projects. Read more here.
Appointment of Oleg Koverznev as CEO
On February 26, 2024, Oleg Koverznev was appointed the new head of Yandex Cloud. Previously, he worked in this cloud project "Yandex" in the position of operating director. Read more here.
Agreement with MTUCI to train highly qualified digital professionals
MTUSI and Yandex Cloud will join forces to train highly qualified digital professionals. The partners signed an agreement on long-term cooperation in educational projects, the first of which was the Cloud Support Academy. MTUSI announced this on February 20, 2024. Read more here.
2023: Grant to Equiron
The Russian The company Equiron"" on January 18, 2023 announced that it had received a grant from Yandex Cloud to adapt its products to work in. cloud infrastructure Yandex.Cloud More. here
2022
Microsoft did not renew the contract with Yandex.Cloud, clients of the Russian provider will lose access to SQL Server and Windows Server
Yandex.Cloud warned customers that Microsoft did not renew its SPLA contract (Services Provider License Agreement), which gives the right to offer end users access to the corporation's software by subscription. And therefore, the Russian cloud provider will suspend the provision of services based on Microsoft products from August 31, 2022. A message about this was posted on July 29 on the Yandex.Cloud blog[3].
At the same time, Yandex.Cloud reports that it continues to look for options to extend the SPLA contract with Microsoft.
At the same time, the cloud service warns users that from August 15 it will limit the ability to create new services based on Microsoft. That is, the current services will continue to work, but new clusters of managed SQL Server and virtual machines based on Windows Server will not be deployed.
And on August 31, 2022 at 23:59 Yandex.Cloud will turn off KMS servers that are responsible for licensing SQL Server, Windows Server and RDS services. Managed Service for SQL Server clusters will also be stopped.
From August 31, they will lose their licenses and the Loginom analytical platform [2] and Kaspersky Lab information security services, which are based on Windows Server, may become unavailable. According to Yandex.Cloud, vendors are now working on versions of Linux products .
To avoid disconnection, Yandex.Cloud recommends to its customers:
- Use Microsoft's own Bring Your Own License (BYOL)
- Replace unlicensed Microsoft services with alternative ones available in Yandex.Cloud.
Yandex.Cloud has warned customers that from September 1, 2022 it will limit the provision of Microsoft licenses, and the responsibility for the use and licensing of the products of the international giant will fall on customers.
Yandex.Cloud also published an instruction on migrating from SQL Server to another database[4].
Tariff hikes
In March 2022, Yandex.Cloud warned of an increase of 31 tariffs by 30-60% from April 13, 2022. Prices rise in rubles and Kazakhstan tenge, but "in dollars remain unchanged." The company clarified that all special conditions and shares previously agreed with customers continue to operate in accordance with the agreements without changes in tariffs.
2021
Cooperation with Jet Infosystems
IT-company Jet Infosystems"" on August 31, 2021 announced that it would accompany projects for creating hybrid and multi-platform cloudy IT infrastructures , Yandex.Cloud including load placement. More. here
"Rostelecom" and "Yandex" agreed to create cloud services for the public sector
In early June 2021, Rostelecom and Yandex agreed to jointly create cloud services for the public and corporate sectors. The corresponding agreement was publicly signed by the first vice-president of Rostelecom Vladimir Kiriyenko and the managing director of the Yandex group of companies Tigran Khudaverdyan.
According to the press service of Rostelecom, cooperation with Yandex involves the joint development and implementation of solutions using the Yandex.Cloud cloud platform and Rostelecom services for customers in the corporate and state segments. All services will meet the increased security requirements for such information systems, the press release said.
| | Joining forces will allow us to develop relevant solutions that will help the authorities and businesses in digitalizing their processes. I am sure that everyone will benefit from our cooperation - first of all, consumers of new services and services, - said Vladimir Kiriyenko, First Vice President of Rostelecom. | |
According to him, within the framework of the new strategy, Rostelecom is betting on the development of modern digital services in partnership with the strongest market players. Yandex undoubtedly has unique competencies in developing software and services, he added.
By June 2021, about 10 thousand companies were connected to the Yandex.Cloud cloud platform, launched in 2018. Over the past year, the volume of consumption of services by large business has grown fivefold, Rostelecom reported.
This is not the first cooperation between Rostelecom and Yandex in the field of cloud technologies. Earlier, the telecom operator launched the Cloud tariff plan with a subscription fee of 850-100 rubles, which provides customers with the ability to store files on Yandex.Disk[5]
2020
Appointment of Alexey Bashkeyav as Platform Manager
On June 29, 2020, Yandex announced the appointment of Alexei Bashkeev as the head of Yandex.Cloud. Read more here.
Agreement with partners to help Russian developers of IoT solutions
June 15, 2020 it became known that. YandexCloud"" will make the development of solutions based on Internet things () IoT easier and faster. To do this, the company entered into an agreement with partners to provide developer companies with discounts on ordering parts, assistance in assembling and testing equipment, connecting to channels for communications transmission. data Yandex.Cloud also allocates grants to developers up to 1 million rubles. for the use of the service IoT Core and other Yandex.Cloud technologies.
Electronic components for devices with a 10% discount will provide the developers of IoT solutions with the Voltik store. Technology engineers of the company "Resonance" will hold extended consultations that will allow developers to minimize the time and cost of electronics production. Redbees experts will help you choose the optimal IoT technology and technical solution to bring the project from an idea or prototype to mass production, and also provide a 5% discount on the cost of ordering a development. Also, development companies will receive an indefinite connection of up to 10 devices per base station to the portal of the developer LoRaWAN of the ER-Telecom network. As a result, IoT developers will be able to solve problems not only at the level of working with software, but also at the level of working with hardware and communication.
In order to take advantage of special conditions, the company needs to join the Yandex.Cloud acceleration program Yandex Cloud Boost. Under the terms of participation, expert support from architects and a 20% discount for a year are also available for companies when switching to paid consumption of Yandex.Cloud services, as well as special conditions for using other Yandex services[6].
Investing $40 million in AI applications
On March 27, 2020, Yandex announced the cooperation of its Yandex.Cloud platform with Nvidia as part of the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Partners open a library of applications for working with machine learning, neural networks and AI Nvidia GPU Cloud (NGC) for Russian companies. Read more here.
2019: Yandex's cloud business overgrown with customers, but continues to "eat away" profits
The experimental division of Yandex (Other Bets and Experiments), represented by the projects Yandex.Drive, Yandex Zen, Yandex.Cloud, geoservices and educational services, ended 2019 with a negative EBITDA indicator (profit before depreciation, taxes and depreciation) of 5.2 billion rubles. This follows from the transcript of a conference call with the participation of company representatives to discuss quarterly financial results. Such an indicator means that, despite the overall revenue growth, this direction does not yet generate profit.
In the 4th quarter of 2019, the loss of EBITDA of the experimental division amounted to 1.8 billion rubles. The operational and financial director of Yandex, Gregory Abovsky, calls this the result of mainly investments in Yandex.Drive and the cloud direction.
A similar reason for the negative EBITDA indicator of the direction of experiments in the company was cited following the discussion of the results of 1-3 quarters of 2019.
According to the results of the 2nd quarter of 2019, Gregory Abowski mentioned that the cloud direction is beginning to demonstrate demand. And according to the results of the fourth quarter - that it is one of the main areas of investment of the division, and that the company, being satisfied with the current results, will continue to invest in it.
Yandex.Cloud chose not to voice TAdviser its revenue for 2019 in absolute terms. In 2018, in the year of launch, according to the Kontur.Focus database, this indicator of the Yandex.Cloud legal entity was 1.1 million rubles.
As of February 2020, this area has more than 20 thousand active users, of which more than 25% switched to commercial consumption, reported TAdviser in Yandex.Cloud. Among the large companies that use the services of Yandex cloud services are Ozon, Leroy Merlin, Decathlon. The services are also used by high-tech young companies Genotek, SkyEng, Axlebolt.
| | In September 2019, it was only a year since the launch of Yandex.Cloud. This year we have tripled in the number of services, attracted thousands of new user companies. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account that Yandex.Cloud is a B2B platform, and we have an incomparably longer process of concluding transactions, developing consumption among existing customers. Despite this, in the fourth quarter, in relation to the third quarter, Yandex.Cloud's revenue from cloud services grew by about 50% - this is a very good indicator in our segment, - said TAdviser in Yandex.Cloud. | |
The company also told TAdviser what Yandex.Cloud investments went to, which were discussed by the company's top managers in conference calls. They are distributed in two main areas: service development and team development. The Yandex.Cloud platform is based on its own developments, including machine learning and artificial intelligence services. The launch of new services, support for existing ones require significant resources, says a Yandex.Cloud representative.
In 2019, the number of services in Yandex.Cloud increased to 27. They can be divided into 4 groups:
- Scalable infrastructures are virtual machines and disks
- Data processing and management services - databases, etc.
- services for creating cloud applications;
- machine learning and AI services.
The most significant releases in 2019 in the company are called Managed Kubernetes - a service for working with container architecture; Data Lens - data analysis and visualization tool; Cloud Functions - serverless computing and YDB - the first database management system (DMS) of the NewSQL family, developed in Russia from scratch. In addition, in 2019, the company launched a marketplace of cloud solutions.
2018: Creation of Yandex.Cloud service
In the 1 quarter of 2018, Yandex's plans to create cloud infrastructure services materialized - the company prepared a new service called Yandex.Cloud for launch. TAdviser became aware of this from a conference call between top Yandex managers and analysts on April 25, dedicated to the company's quarterly financial results. Read more here.
2016: Founding of the company
Clouds Technologies Yandex were established by Yandex in April 2016. Tatyana Bakharevskaya, Deputy Director of the Yandex Operations and IT Services Department, was then appointed its General Director.
The goals of creating a legal entity in Yandex at that time were explained by the media plans to launch cloud infrastructure services like the Amazon Web Services Yandex service [7]. At the first stage, it was planned to offer companies virtual servers "based on the latest generation Intel processors." Yandex noted that the company used to make data centers for its projects, and now "is ready to share experience with external projects." Yandex Cloud solutions are focused on both large companies and small businesses and startups that do not want to invest in the development of their own infrastructure.
Yandex also widely announced its own developed cloud technologies in 2013-2014. In particular, we are talking about the Elliptics data warehouse and the Cocaine PaaS platform, used by the Internet company to manage the infrastructure of its services.
Elliptics technology, for example, as of 2016, is used in Yandex.Photos, Yandex.Music, Yandex.Maps"," "Yandex.Direct," Yandex.Market"," "Yandex.Weather," "Yandex.Store."
Elliptics and Cocaine source codes are open[8][9] and published on GitHub.
[3] As of 2016, Yandex's IT infrastructure is based on four data centers in Moscow and the Moscow region, one data center each in the Ryazan region and Finland. Another data center is being built in Vladimir.
Notes
- ↑ Yandex intends to enter the top five leaders among information security vendors in Russia
- ↑ A massive failure occurred in Russian services
- ↑ Restricting the provision of Microsoft services in Yandex Cloud
- ↑ Migration of the database to a third-party SQL Server cluster
- ↑ Rostelecom and Yandex will present joint cloud services for business and the public sector
- ↑ Yandex.Cloud simplifies the development of solutions based on the Internet of things for Russian companies
- ↑ will create a competitor to Amazon Web Services with "clouds" for Russian small businesses
- ↑ Description of Cocaine on the Yandex website
- ↑ Description of Elliptics on the Yandex website
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