Industry Findings: Market dynamics in Russia have been defined by rising self-reliance in compute infrastructure and accelerated domestic cloud build-outs (Sep-2023). With international vendor repositioning, enterprises increasingly gravitate toward national providers offering compliant hosting and sovereign-grade architecture. This push has triggered significant investment in local datacenter capacity, especially from domestic telecom-cloud operators supporting mission-critical workloads.
Industry Progression: Progression is reflected in Rostelecom’s large-scale DC expansion through its Rostelecom-Data centers division, which announced new facility builds and modernization programs in Feb-2024. These expansions increase the availability of domestic compute, reduce dependency on foreign infrastructure, and strengthen the country’s internal cloud ecosystem—reshaping competitive conditions for local enterprises.
Industry Player Insights: Market players influencing Russia include Rostelecom-Data Centers, SberCloud, Yandex Cloud, and Selectel. SberCloud’s Dec-2023 capacity increase in its ML compute clusters boosted enterprise AI adoption potential and sharpened rivalry among Russian cloud players by lifting performance benchmarks.