Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that officially allows domestic companies and citizens to temporarily use the computing power of foreign data processing centers (data centers) to ensure the smooth functioning of the Runet.
The Russian IT sector has received a legal tool to protect its infrastructure in the face of escalating threats to physical security. According to expert estimates, the key hubs for the relocation of some of the digital capacities will be the closest allies from the EAEU, primarily Belarus and Kazakhstan, with which market participants have already held preliminary consultations.
Moreover, in early October, the government initiated the development of projects for the construction of large data centers in these countries.
The emergency adoption of the document is dictated by the serious challenges of the past month. From October 8 to October 11, Yandex's key sites in the Vladimir, Kaluga and Ryazan regions, as well as a large data center of VK Holding near St. Petersburg, were subjected to massive raids by Ukrainian drones. The temporary shutdown of some of them provoked long-term disruptions in cloud services, after which the relevant associations appealed to the government to lift bans on the use of external backup capacities.
The new presidential decree solves this problem, but introduces tough counter conditions for market participants. From now on, all non-state commercial data centers within the country are required to reserve at least 10% of their capacities and areas for the needs of significant government information resources. Only 10 days are allotted for the allocation of this limit to the business, and in case of emergencies, access to the servers must be provided to the state during the day at fixed rates.
All operations of companies using capacities abroad will be strictly controlled by a government subcommittee and undergo mandatory coordination with the FSB.
Despite strict control, the IT market reacted to the appearance of the decree with tremendous optimism - at the evening auction of the Moscow Stock Exchange, VK shares instantly soared by 15% amid a sharp decrease in long—term infrastructure risks for the company.
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