VK Cloud

VK Cloud, formerly Mail.ru Cloud Solutions and then VK Cloud Solutions, is the public cloud platform in the VK Tech portfolio. It covers both IaaS and PaaS. On the infrastructure side it offers virtual machines with SSD, HDD, High-IOPS and low-latency NVMe disks, NFS and CIFS file storage, load balancers and security groups. On the platform side it offers Kubernetes as a service, sold in Russia since 2018, S3-compatible object storage, GPU compute, virtual desktops, and a wide range of managed databases. The database line-up includes PostgreSQL, Postgres Pro, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, Tarantool and Arenadata DB, alongside Kafka and Cloud Trino for analytics. The main buyers are Russian companies and public-sector organisations that need data kept in Russia under 152-FZ. Reports say the infrastructure is certified for personal data at the UZ-1 protection level. A separate Kazakhstan platform holds ISO 27001, 27017, 27018 and 27701 certificates. Pricing is pay-as-you-go: vCPU, RAM, disk gigabytes, snapshots, public IPs and licences are each metered per minute, and databases are metered per second. Inbound and outbound traffic, monitoring and automatic database backups are free. Exact rates come from VK's price list and calculator, which were not accessible for this note. The platform also has a marketplace of third-party apps and links into the wider VK Tech ecosystem. The main limitations are its narrow geographic and language focus, the lack of independent performance benchmarks, and the risk of lock-in through proprietary quotas and interfaces.