Abstract:
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on November 2 requiring non-state-owned data centers in Russia to reserve at least 10% of their capacity. The reserved capacity will be used by the Russian government to maintain information infrastructure operations when necessary. The decree also allows relevant agencies to temporarily use cloud computing services outside Russia after obtaining approval.
The data center was attacked by Ukrainian drones continuously:
In October, Ukraine successively used drones to attack multiple data centers in Russia. Among them, the data centers of Yandex Cloud, Russia’s local search engine, were most affected. Even Russia’s tax data center nodes were also attacked by drones.
There are a large number of servers running in the data center, which also need to be connected through power supply facilities, cooling facilities and various networks. After being attacked by drones, these hardware facilities are destroyed, which will affect the operation of the data center, and the data center provides a variety of critical information services to the Russian government and enterprises.
10% capacity reserved for private data centers:
Based on the fact that data centers have been continuously attacked and affected a variety of services, the new decree requires all non-state-owned data centers in Russia to reserve at least 10% of their capacity. The Russian government can decide how to use these resources when necessary to ensure the continued operation of information infrastructure.
For example, when an important data center is attacked and rendered unusable, Russia can migrate key services to other unaffected data centers. However, the usage rate of many data centers is very high. If the capacity is not reserved in advance, the Russian government may not have room for migration by then.
However, for Russian private data centers, reserved capacity will cause losses, because this capacity cannot be sold to corporate customers, and being idle for a long time will cause a waste of resources. Russia has not yet mentioned whether it will provide the necessary compensation for these reserved capacities.
Overseas data centers can also be used in emergencies:
The decree also allows Russian government agencies to temporarily use overseas data centers. However, the use of overseas data centers must obtain approval from relevant departments in advance, especially the consent of the Russian Federal Security Service. Only non-sensitive services and data can be run in overseas data centers.
Russia has been promoting the localization of data and digital infrastructure for a long time. This policy has allowed some important digital infrastructure to be concentrated in Russia. But this situation also puts greater pressure on the data center to recover after being attacked, which means the potential damage caused by the attack is greater.
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