| Developers: | Yandex.Cloud (Yandex Cloud) |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | September 2024 |
| Technology: | IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service |
2025: Open access to all companies
The Yandex Cloud platform (part of the Yandex B2B Tech group) has opened access to the Yandex BareMetal dedicated physical server rental service for all companies. The business will now be able to integrate leased servers with the provider's cloud environment . This will allow companies to work with different infrastructures in a single computing loop to test and develop digital products faster. Previously, the service was under testing. Any company on the platform website can access Yandex BareMetal. Yandex Cloud announced this on April 8, 2025.
In a public preview, you can work with the service using APIs, which will simplify the integration of Yandex BareMetal with the company's business applications. Also, for secure access to the service, you can granularly distribute access rights to the server between employees.
 | Yandex has a large team of engineers who have been supporting the server infrastructure for many years. We are investing this expertise in the development of Yandex BareMetal so that companies can fully entrust equipment maintenance and focus on the development of IT products, "said Grigory Atrepyev, CPO of the Yandex Cloud platform. |  |
According to a Yandex Cloud study, 59% of Russian companies began using physical server rental services (BareMetal) relatively recently - over the past 1.5 years. This is due to the fact that the business has fewer resources and opportunities for self-procurement and maintenance of equipment during this period. In addition, interest in dedicated servers was influenced by the demand for infrastructure for the development of AI systems.
Most often, BareMetal technologies are used to store and process data - 70% of respondents in the study said this. 66% use those allocated servers for their own, virtualizations for example, OpenStack or, VMware as well as for hosting business applications and backofice tasks - 47% and 44% said this, respectively. For all scenarios with dedicated servers, respondents noted the importance of integrating BareMetal with protection services against (59%) DDoS-attacks , (48%) backup and - cloudy router a single network between dedicated servers and cloud infrastructure (46%). In Yandex, BareMetal is available integration with cloud platform tools for connecting backup, data migration, monitoring tools.
2024: Service announcement
On September 25, 2024, the Yandex Cloud cloud platform announced the launch of the Yandex BareMetal dedicated physical server rental service. Computing power will be provided to companies to host any software, including virtualization tools. At the same time, Yandex Cloud takes over the tasks of maintaining the equipment.
| | We saw that companies have a stable demand for dedicated servers to work with high-load services, so we decided to launch this service, - explained TAdviser in Yandex Cloud. | |
On the day of the announcement, customers became available the option to apply for closed testing of the Yandex BareMetal service, which Yandex.Cloud plans to start by the end of 2024.
Regarding prices for the service, the company told TAdviser that in closed testing mode, users will be able to try Yandex BareMetal for free, and added that "in the future, of course, charging will appear and will correspond to the market."
At the same time, the company could not clarify what equipment will be available to customers.
Yandex Cloud notes that Yandex BareMetal can be used together with the Yandex Cloud cloud infrastructure for different scenarios where dedicated servers are needed. The service provides integration with the tools of the cloud platform for connecting backup, data migration.
Client companies will be able to choose in Yandex BareMetal the necessary server configuration with a certain number of cores and memory for their task. You can manage this in a special console, as well as use a single support center, billing and the provider's access control system.
| | Our customers often use different platforms to host their IT systems and services, both cloud and on their own infrastructure. By launching Yandex BareMetal, we are opening up even more new scenarios for companies to work with high-load services. They are needed by software companies, e-commerce platforms, online banking and video streaming services, "said Grigory Atrepyev, CPO of the Yandex Cloud cloud platform. | |
The market size IaaS by 2028 will amount to 359.4 billion, rubles while the share of the Bare Metal segment is about 10% in the market in recent years, according to Yandex Cloud.
By the time Yandex BareMetal was announced, many providers of cloud services and data center services already offer a similar service, including Rostelecom, Cloud.ru, Selectel. In the latter, at the beginning of 2024, it was noted that the growth in demand for leased server rental services is facilitated, among other things, by a change in the consumption model for data center services in Russia: fewer companies are focused on purchasing their own equipment and placing it in data centers, and more and more prefer ready-made services.
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