VK Cloud

vk.ru · Compute, Storage · 2 records · JSON

VK Cloud Computefails: identityemailno cardDwrite-gated
VK Cloud Object Storage Storagefails: egressemailno cardRretention-clamped

VK Cloud Compute

fails: identityemailno cardDwrite-gated

cloud.vk.ru/bonus/ · cloud VM · compute/vk-cloud · JSON · compare

Free tier	RUB 5,000 of welcome bonuses for an individual account and RUB 12,000 for a legal entity, valid 60 days once credited. Of the RUB 5,000 for an individual, RUB 2,000 is usable on virtual machines and their backups and RUB 3,000 on other services; licensed products, the marketplace and CDN are excluded. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-shot-credit
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	write-gated The bonus is conditioned on the account being registered from an IP address in Russia and on a corporate-domain email address being confirmed, so the individual RUB 5,000 lane is closed to a registrant outside Russia even though no passport is asked for. source The bonus is conditioned on the account being registered from an IP address in Russia and on a corporate-domain email address being confirmed, so the individual RUB 5,000 lane is closed to a registrant outside Russia even though no passport is asked for.
Binding	write-gated The bonus is conditioned on the account being registered from an IP address in Russia and on a corporate-domain email address being confirmed, so the individual RUB 5,000 lane is closed to a registrant outside Russia even though no passport is asked for.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	RUB 2,000 of VM-only bonus at the Russian CPU rate is a few weeks of a 2-vCPU box, and the RUB 3,000 half cannot be spent on the VM, so the effective VM credit is 40 per cent of the headline.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The useful number here is not the RUB 5,000 but the split: 40 per cent of the individual bonus reaches virtual machines. The startup grant is the large figure (up to RUB 2,000,000, with RUB 500,000 for months one and two and up to RUB 1,500,000 for months three to six) and it is entity-gated, so it is fails-identity with the number beside the reason. The IP-in-Russia condition is the constraint no identity document satisfies, which is unusual: most Russian providers gate on the phone, this one gates on the network.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	cloud.vk.ru/bonus/	' VK Cloud: 5000 12 000 - ' (RUB 5,000 for individuals, RUB 12,000 for legal entities), ' IP- , ' (the account must be registered on a corporate domain from an IP address in Russia), ' 60 ' (valid 60 days), quoted
2026-10-22	cloud.vk.ru/bonus/	' 5000 2000 - , 3000 - ' (of the 5,000, 2,000 is usable on VMs and backups), and the RUB 12,000 entity tier requires ' ', ' ', ' ' for sole traders, quoted
2026-10-22	cloud.vk.ru/pricing/	' 5000 VK Cloud, 60 ' (after activation we contact you and credit RUB 5,000 for 60 days), quoted
2026-10-22	cloud.vk.ru/startup/	' VK Cloud 2026 ' (the account must be registered to a legal entity or sole trader in 2026) for the startup grant of up to RUB 2,000,000 over six months, quoted

More fields (1)

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 "wave2": {
  "class": "regional",
  "free_tier_kind": "one-shot-credit",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": 0
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated

VK Cloud Object Storage Storage

fails: egressemailno cardRretention-clamped

cloud.vk.ru/storage/ · iaas · storage/vk-cloud-object-storage · JSON · compare

Free tier	no perpetual free volume — pay-as-you-go per GB, per storage class (Hotbox/Icebox/Backup) unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	bonus expires in 60 days and unused balance is revoked; bonus cannot be spent on CDN, licences or marketplace (60 days)
Egress	metered: 'Outgoing traffic is any downloading of information from the bucket ... In both cases, the bucket is accessed using an external IP address' — charged per GB on Hotbox and Icebox; only incoming traffic and API calls are free
Identity	email derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: idual, one-time, 60-day expiry, requires a corporate-domain email and an RF IP; = N identities x ~60 days of storage, not perpetual bonus expires in 60 days and unused balance is revoke
Limits	retention-clamped expires in 60 days source bonus expires in 60 days and unused balance is revoked; bonus cannot be spent on CDN, licences or marketplace
Binding	retention-clamped a clock, not a quota: bytes leave whether or not the client is finished with them
Interface	s3-compatible, rclone s3
Tooling	S3-compatible API, rclone via S3 backend; the only free axis is the 5 000 RUB (individual) / 12 000 RUB (legal entity) welcome bonus, 60 days
Composes with	welcome bonus only: 5 000 RUB per individual, one-time, 60-day expiry, requires a corporate-domain email and an RF IP; = N identities x ~60 days of storage, not perpetual
Reliability	Bonus-grant model means the storage disappears at day 60 unless paid; per-GB egress makes any serving workload a bill.
Notes	no perpetual free volume — pay-as-you-go per GB, per storage class (Hotbox/Icebox/Backup)
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	cloud.vk.ru/docs/en/storage/s3/tariffication	'Outgoing traffic is any downloading of information from the bucket ... you pay for: Volume of stored data (per GB). Outgoing traffic (per GB)'
2026-10-21	cloud.vk.ru/bonus/	'5000 бонусных рублей для физических лиц и 12 000 — для юридических лиц', 'Бонус выдается на срок 60 дней'
2026-10-21	hb.ru-msk.vkcloud-storage.ru/	not published

More fields (1)

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 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "no perpetual free volume — pay-as-you-go per GB, per storage class (Hotbox/Icebox/Backup)",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (6)

$.evidence[2].proved withheld
$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted