Yandex Cloud

Yandex Cloud is a full-featured Russian cloud platform for virtual infrastructure, storage, managed databases, analytics, AI, serverless development and information security.

Sources: the official Yandex Cloud website, the service catalog and the infrastructure and availability-zone overview.

• Infrastructure: Compute Cloud, BareMetal, Virtual Private Cloud, load balancers, CDN and DNS.
• Containers and DevOps: Managed Service for Kubernetes, Container Registry, Managed GitLab, SourceCraft and Managed Prometheus.
• Data platform: managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse, Kafka and OpenSearch, plus YDB, Data Processing and Data Transfer.
• Storage: Object Storage, network disks, backups and archival storage classes.
• Serverless: Cloud Functions, Serverless Containers, API Gateway, Message Queue and Data Streams.
• AI and ML: Yandex AI Studio, DataSphere, SpeechKit, Vision OCR, Translate and Search API.
• Security: IAM, KMS, Lockbox, Audit Trails, Smart Web Security, Security Deck and Certificate Manager.

The current product selection and status are available in the official catalog.

New users can receive a starter grant: 4,000 ₽ when registering with a bank card, or 10,000 ₽ for a business account paying by bank transfer. The grant is valid for 60 days, with exclusions for certain services.

Under the Yandex Cloud Boost program, the Start tier provides 50,000 ₽ for six months, while Migrate provides up to 1,000,000 ₽ for two months, architecture consulting, priority support and discounts on selected services.

Terms: starter grant, Yandex Cloud Boost, and promotions and free tier. The amount and availability depend on the country, account type and payment method.

Yandex Cloud bills by the minute or second, depending on the service. The final bill combines compute, memory, disks, public addresses, operations, storage and outbound traffic.

In the official Compute example, a virtual machine with 2 cores, each with a 20% vCPU share, and 2 GB RAM costs 1,224 ₽ for 720 hours, while a configuration with 2 cores, each with a 100% vCPU share, and 2 GB RAM costs 2,260.80 ₽. Disks and traffic are not included in these examples.

In the Object Storage example, a 20 GB repository with 150,000 read requests costs 47.444 ₽ per month in the standard class after the free allowance is applied.

Calculations: Compute Cloud pricing and Object Storage pricing. Configure budgets and spending alerts in advance for production workloads.

Yandex Cloud operates in a protected environment spanning four availability zones. This provides a solid foundation for critical systems, but resilience is not automatic: applications, data and load balancing must be correctly distributed across zones.

The AS200350 network profile shows approximately 211,456 IPv4 addresses and 94 peering relationships. This is a meaningful indicator of an owned cloud network, but it does not describe the performance of a particular VM or service.

The samples differ markedly and some reviews may relate to different use cases and levels of user experience, so ratings should be treated as guidance rather than as technical benchmarks.

For a simple VPS workload, Yandex Cloud may be more complex and expensive than a specialist hosting provider. Before launch, calculate not only CPU and RAM but also disks, public addresses, operations and outbound traffic, then enable budgets and alerts. With sound financial and architectural controls, the depth of the ecosystem becomes its greatest advantage.