Sep 26, 2025 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Yandex Cloud will launch another Russian availability zone in 2026, based at a new data center. The facility will have a capacity of more than 40MW and a claimed PUE of 1.1, achieved through the use of free-cooling technology throughout the data center.
In a blog post announcing the news, Ivan Puzyrevsky, CTO of Yandex Cloud, stated that the availability zone would support data transfer latency of less than one millisecond to adjacent zones, with a total channel capacity of up to 25.6Tbps between them.
He added that communication channels with other availability zones will be independent of each other, providing additional fault tolerance for the cloud infrastructure. In addition to launching the new zone, Yandex will be the first company in Russia to launch tools for conducting infrastructure resiliency exercises.
