Yandex Cloud
Yandex Cloud is a public cloud platform developed by the Russian internet company Yandex. Yandex Cloud provides private and corporate users with infrastructure and computing resources in an ‘as a service’ format.
History
Yandex's plans to enter the public cloud market have been known since 2016, but the first news about the development of the service appeared in 2017 when Yan Leshchinsky, who had previously worked on cloud platforms at Microsoft, Salesforce and AWS, joined the company. Closed testing of Yandex Cloud began in April 2018 with the participation of over 50 large Russian and international companies, including Tinkoff Bank, X5 Retail Group, S7 and Skyeng. The platform was presented in a technical preview in September 2018. The user base and revenue of the platform grew consistently, so in October 2020, Yandex moved Yandex Cloud from an experimental direction to an independent business unit.Structure
The Yandex Cloud platform uses the same infrastructure as the main Yandex services and is located in the same data centers. Many Yandex Cloud components are based on the company's internal tools, originally developed for in-company use. Open-source software is also used: KVM for the hypervisor, Tungsten Fabric for software-defined networking, etc. As the first Russian partner of Nvidia GPU Cloud, Yandex Cloud provides access to specialized applications which are optimized for Nvidia GPUs for working with artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks and high-performance computing.Services
Yandex Cloud includes infrastructure and data management services, tools for developing cloud applications and machine learning models, as well as proprietary ML-based services:;Infrastructure and Network
- Compute Cloud
- Object Storage
- Cloud Interconnect
- API Gateway
- Network Load Balancer
- Application Load Balancer
- Virtual Private Cloud
- DDoS Protection
- Сloud DNS
- Yandex Managed Service for PostgreSQL
- MS for ClickHouse
- MS for MySQL
- MS for Redis
- MS for MongoDB
- MS for Elasticsearch
- MS for Apache Kafka.
- MS for SQL Server
- MS for Greenplum
- Data Proc
- Data Transfer
- Message Queue.
- Managed Service for Kubernetes
- Container Registry
- Cloud Functions
- Database
- Yandex IoT Core
- Key Management Service
- Certificate Manager
- Lockbox
- Monitoring
- Identity and Access Management
- Resource Manager
- DataSphere
- SpeechKit
- Translate
- Vision
- Brand Voice Call Center
- Tracker
- DataLens
Security
Yandex Cloud's hardware base is located in the same data centers as Yandex's other services, but physically separated by hardware firewalls. Inside Yandex Cloud, a HIPS is used, and ACL access control is applied at the top-of-rack switch level. For virtual machines, the QEMU/KVM assembly is used with a minimum set of code and libraries, and all processes are launched under the control of AppArmor.
The platform complies with the requirements of the European Union's GDPR and ensures the level of protection of personal data according to Russian Federal Law No. 152 "On Personal Data" up to Security Level 1, complies with the GOST R 57580 security standard established by the regulations of the Bank of Russia. Yandex Cloud is also the first public cloud in Russia that has confirmed compliance with the PCI DSS standard for all categories of services: IaaS, SaaS, PaaS and serverless computing.