In brief
Russian companies are seeking backup capacity in Kazakhstan and Belarus as attack risks and a domestic cloud capacity shortage drive demand, according to market representatives cited by RBC-Ukraine.
Russian businesses are showing increased interest in overseas data centres, particularly in Kazakhstan and Belarus, RBC-Ukraine reported, citing United24. The outlet linked the search to Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian data centres in October and pressure on domestic capacity.
Evgeny Svidersky, vice-president for cloud services at ITGlobal.com, said demand for foreign data centres had risen sharply. He said companies were seeking backup sites independent of the network and power infrastructure serving their main servers in Russia.
Alexey Borshchov, an AI projects business architect at Avandok, described the strategy as geographic redundancy rather than full relocation of core infrastructure. Companies were seeking spare servers in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, while cloud providers were discussing capacity reservations with clients. Market participants cited in the report estimated that nearly 90% of Russia’s cloud resources were already occupied.
RBC-Ukraine also cited unnamed market sources as saying some companies had begun moving workloads abroad. Its report did not identify those companies or specify the scale or exact dates of the transfers.
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