Targeted at businesses, developers, government agencies, and startups that prioritize performance, security, data localization, and access to advanced technologies — including AI and big data.
Infrastructure
The platform utilizes the same infrastructure as Yandex's core services and is located in the same data centers. Many components are based on the company's internal products, originally developed for its own tasks.
Features:
- Services utilize a single pool of unified hardware resources, allowing for rapid platform scaling.
- Various interfaces are available for working with the services: a management console, the Yandex Cloud mobile app, a command-line interface (CLI), development tools, and APIs.
Services
Selected Yandex Cloud platform services:
- Compute: virtual machines (VM), serverless functions (Functions), managed Kubernetes with rapid deployment.
- Data Storage: Object Storage, block storage (Disks), cloud file system (File Store).
- Databases: Managed Service for PostgreSQL/MySQL — managed relational DBMS, YDB (Yandex Database) — proprietary distributed, fault-tolerant database supporting SQL, NoSQL, and hybrid workloads.
- Network and Security: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) — isolated networks, subnets, NAT, load balancers (L4/L7), DDoS Protection — network-level protection.
- AI and Machine Learning: SpeechKit — speech recognition and synthesis (including Russian), Computer Vision — image analysis, Translate API — text translation.