Astra Cloud

2025

Availability of QRate Chaos quantum random number generator

Astra Group and the scientific and educational company QRate on October 6, 2025 announced the creation of a pilot software and hardware complex (PAK) Astra Cloud with a quantum random number generator (KGSH) QRate Chaos, which uses the fundamental uncertainty of quantum processes to form unpredictable sequences. According to Astra Group and QRate, this is the first solution of this class in the country: users in a matter of minutes gain access to truly random numbers as a service on the Astra Cloud platform. Read more here.

Digital sovereignty for business: How Astra Cloud platform helps build trusted private clouds

The demand for private clouds in Russia is growing, and in response to this, Astra Group released the Astra Cloud platform in 2024. Despite the relatively recent launch, it has already been appreciated by customers from the public sector and cloud providers. Denis Mukhin, Director of Virtualization and Cloud Services at Astra Group, talks about the product's capabilities and plans for the future - especially for TAdviser. Read more here.

Launch dedicated Baikal-S based servers

Astra Cloud (part of Astra Group"") and p Baikal Electronics"" on September 11, 2025 announced the launch of a rental service allocated servers on the basis. processor Baikal-S The offer is aimed at enterprises and CUES state organizations other corporate customers, who need to debug and adapt their own for software the domestic architecture and build a reliable and secure infrastructure for solving critical problems.

The rental model allows you to use resources that are fully assigned to customers. This ensures predictable application performance, a high level of data protection and freedom to customize systems to suit your needs. You can deploy private clouds, create failover clusters, and work with information that requires special control. At the same time, capital costs for the purchase and maintenance of equipment are not needed, and at the same time all the advantages of dedicated servers are preserved for customers.

The use of servers based on Baikal-S gives other important preferences. First of all, this is technological independence from foreign platforms, and these processors also meet the requirements for critical information infrastructure facilities and allow building stable ecosystems for testing and operating local software. Finally, chips from Baikal Electronics, due to their performance and reliability, are suitable for companies from the most demanding segments of the market.

Servers located in Moscow, data center corresponding to the highest level of security TIER IV, which guarantees round-the-clock availability and maximum fault tolerance of the infrastructure.

The launch of the lease of dedicated servers based on Baikal-S processors is an important step in the development of the domestic IT sector. We give business and government agencies access to a reliable, predictable and secure platform for building private clouds and working with critical loads, "said Anton Shmakov, technical director of Astra Group.

We are pleased that Baikal-S processors are becoming the foundation for commercial enterprise cloud solutions. This confirms the readiness of the Russian microelectronics for use in the most demanding market segments, "said Artyom Ogurtsov, Commercial Director of Baikal Electronics.

RuPost Subscription Mail Server Availability

Astra Cloud and RuPost, part of the Astra Group, presented a service - subscription access to the corporate email server of the same name located in Astra Cloud. The key advantages of their proposal are the flexibility and speed of deployment, ease of integration with the existing IT environment, and cost-effectiveness. Astra Group announced this on July 24, 2025. Read more here.

Include Yadro hardware in the cloud infrastructure

Astra Group, together with technology company YADRO, is building a completely Russian alternative to Western cloud platforms, which will allow Russian companies to accelerate the transition to digital services. Now Astra Group products are even more convenient, reliable and safer in the cloud based on YADRO solutions. Astra Group announced this on July 22, 2025.

Astra Group products, including Astra server RuPost file Disk mail, corporate storage virtualizations , a desktop platform Termidesk and other in-demand services, are becoming even more accessible on the Astra Cloud infrastructure, without the need to build and deploy their own capacities. This approach will allow Russian companies of any scale to switch to digital secure services much faster.

The Astra Cloud infrastructure architecture involves high-performance, VEGMAN R220 G2 servers storage systems enterprise-level, TATLIN.UNIFIED GEN2 as well as those network switches KORNFELD developed and manufactured by YADRO. The project includes the deployment of 300 servers VEGMANs, two and 38 DSS switches, followed by infrastructure scaling to thousands of servers in the coming years as the service evolves.

The next stages of the project expansion provide for the possible use of an additional amount of YADRO hardware solutions. In particular, it is planned to test the use cases TATLIN.OBJECT (object storage with support for S3, HTTP (S), gRPC protocols) and TATLIN.BACKUP (specialized backup DSS). The first phase of the project should be implemented in the third quarter of 2025.

The Astra Cloud service provider is focused on both business and government and guarantees compliance with regulatory requirements. Astra Cloud emphasizes the deployment of isolated and qualified models - depending on customer needs, including the ability to create dedicated installations.

This stage of cooperation with a strategic partner strengthens the foundation of technological independence and creates a solid foundation for the provision of Astra Group software solutions according to the subscription model - in a completely domestic cloud. We are building a cloud where everything is under control - from the level of equipment to the level of the operating system and services. In conjunction with YADRO, we offer the market a reliable, safe and completely Russian alternative to Western platforms, "said Konstantin Anisimov, CEO of Astra Cloud.

For us, this project is a logical continuation of the strategic partnership with Astra Group. Together we create a market where customers can be sure: everything from hardware to software and services is developed and supported in Russia. This approach allows customers to build both local infrastructures and reliable cloud services on a single technological base, while maintaining a high level of performance and security, "said Alexander Bakulin, Commercial Director of YADRO.

2024: Product Announcement

Astra Group in August 2024 announced the launch of the Astra Cloud cloud platform, which is positioned as a full-fledged alternative to Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services for Russian companies. This step is aimed at providing organizations, including government agencies and large corporations, with reliable and secure solutions in the context of the ongoing import substitution process.

According to Astra Group, the new Astra Cloud platform is based entirely on the company's products, including the Astra Linux operating system, Tantor database management system, GitFlic development tools, RuBackup backup and other key tools. Customers can use Astra Cloud both in on-premium format and in a private cloud deployed on Astra Linux. This solution will complete import substitution and provide flexibility and scalability for large projects.

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According to Anton Shmakov, technical director of Astra Group, the growing demand for cloud technologies and the desire of Russian companies to minimize risks are forcing them to look for stable, import-independent solutions. Astra Cloud offers all the necessary tools to digitally transform the business without the added cost of equipment and staff training. Moreover, the platform meets high security standards, which is especially important for government agencies and large corporations.

The placement of Astra Cloud in the Moscow DataPro and AtomData data centers, corresponding to the TIER III and TIER IV security levels, provides reliable data protection. The platform offers a "3-2-1" backup strategy that minimizes the risk of data loss, with two copies of the file stored locally and one in the cloud.

In addition, Astra Cloud supports tiered security and the ability to integrate with existing solutions through the directory service. The platform is managed through an intuitive personal account interface, which simplifies the work of IT specialists and reduces the likelihood of errors.^[1]

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