The “computer apocalypse” is called off. The services that left Russia due to US sanctions on September 12 became known

• In June, the US Treasury expanded sanctions against Russian companies. As of September 12, US IT companies are prohibited from providing services to customers in the Russian Federation. This includes selling software for the design of IT systems and infrastructure, cloud services and solutions for business management, design and production (covered software), and providing consultations. The sanctions aim to limit the Russian defense industry’s access to foreign software and IT services.

Who decided to leave Russia?

Notion notes service

Notion, a service for creating notes and databases, warned Russian users about the closure three days before the US sanctions came into force. The platform will close all workspaces of users located in Russia, cancel paid subscriptions, and also prohibit access from the territory of the country, it reported on its website. Russians were asked to export the data and find another service to work with. Among the Russian analogues of the service are WEEEK, Yandex Wiki, Strive, Teamly, Yonote.

Wix Website Builder

Website builder Wix has decided to block all accounts of Russian residents starting from September 12. “From this date, all sites belonging to residents of the Russian Federation will be removed from publication,” the company said. Wix recommended moving their domains to other platforms as soon as possible; users were given just three days to do so. In Russia, more than 28 thousand websites are powered by Wix, including restaurants and online stores.

Ecwid Online Store Builder

Ecwid, the free online store developer founded by Russian Ruslan Fazlyev, who later sold it to a Canadian company, informed its customers about the cessation of work on the Russian market a month before this event.

“We are very sorry to have to stop working with you,” the company said in its newsletter for customers. Customers were asked to switch to another platform by September 9. In exchange, the Russian company InSales already offers its solution to Wix and Ecwid designers.

Miró virtual whiteboard

On August 14, the former Perm startup-turned-unicorn Miro announced that it would stop serving clients from Russia and Belarus. The company made this decision against the backdrop of new US sanctions, which include a ban on providing Russians with IT consulting services, cloud services for business management, and software for design and production. But on August 21, Miro clarified that it would continue to provide services to those clients from Russia and Belarus who connected for free. Yandex and VK have already begun creating analogues of the virtual board.

This is not the first time the company has announced its exit from Russia; in March 2022, it closed its office in Perm.

GetResponse Email Service

The Polish service, on the eve of the sanctions coming into force, sent a letter to its Russian users to cancel the service. The service left Russia “for a day”, the affiliate department was closed and the service’s website became unavailable in Russia on August 20.

Service for Hubspot marketing specialists

Marketing software developer Hubspot will disable Russian accounts of customers, partners and regular users by September 12. Support for apps in Russian versions of online app stores will also be discontinued.

Coda Publishing Service

Coda, a collaborative document creation and editing service, will stop working in Russia and Belarus starting September 12. Coda allowed you to create working notes, an overview, a project map, timelines, and integrate workflows with Jira and Slack. You can find dozens of online programs that position themselves as Coda analogues.

Google Cloud BigQuery

Google will close the BigQuery cloud service in Russia, which has been operating for 10 years. The service was used to process and analyze a large amount of data. At the same time, cloud services Google Workspace and Google Cloud will continue to operate in Russia.

ClickUp Project Management Service

ClickUp sent a letter to Russian users informing them that their accounts would be deactivated starting September 12. Customers of the service in Russia will lose access to the company’s services. ClickUp recommended that Russian users transfer their work tasks to accounts of users not located in Russia, as well as export their data.

Microsoft Cloud Services

Softline said it had received a notification from Microsoft about a ban on the supply of certain products and services to Russia, including Microsoft Azure. The restrictions are related to sanctions that will come into force on September 12, the Russian company said.

Users were advised to back up their data and stop using Microsoft services to avoid being blocked.

In addition, restrictions have affected M365, O365, EMS. In addition, Teams is not available for users,” the message on the Telegram channel “Softline Hotline” also read. Russian users have already started switching from Microsoft services to Yandex.

What do IT people say?

Experts believe that the announced “departures” will not be critical for Russia, there is someone who will replace the foreigners, which means that the “IT apocalypse” will not occur on September 12.

“The blockade will affect a small number of companies, I suppose these are already private issues. We ourselves use Miro – it is a convenient service for solving some problems, but it is by no means indispensable. Already from the first wave of blockages it became clear that any imported IT solutions are a risk area. As practice shows, either they decide to leave our market or the regulator will block access to them,” the co-founder and CEO of AgroSignal told RB.RU. Vladimir Korshunov.

Experts recommend that users check what they are working with.

“I would recommend that users check where they place their business resources and where they store their customer base. As experience shows, it is necessary to transfer business infrastructure to reliable Russian platforms in order not to become hostages to the exit of such services,” said the CEO of the online business management platform inSales, commenting on the departure of website builders. Timofey Gorshkov.

Director of the Russian IT company Ideco Dmitri Khomutov He believes that the restrictions on Notion and Wix will be significant for ordinary users. But overall, the situation in the domestic market for cloud and office solutions and firewalls is currently stable.

“If earlier, when foreign players left Russia, there was an urgent need to develop Russian analogues, now the level of local technologies has caught up with foreign developments. As for firewalls, the number of IT solutions has doubled in recent years alone. More than 20 Russian suppliers are already ready to offer their information security technologies by 2024,” says Jomutov.

The expert adds that, for example, Microsoft Azure is already being replaced by Russian developments from IT corporations. It is true that some companies continue to buy foreign CRM systems and cloud storage under “grey” schemes, but their share is gradually declining.

“This is especially true for the public sector, 80% of which has already switched to the Russian version of cloud software. According to analysts, the cloud solutions market in Russia will grow by more than 340 billion rubles by 2028,” the expert concluded.