Not loss, but insurance? Gosuvlak's capacity underutilization is estimated at 2.7 billion rubles.
In some cases, the capacity of the unified cloud platform of the state Gosovalko was less than half loaded. The Accounting Office (CA) reached these conclusions after analyzing the activity of Rostelecom, a service provider for the platform in 2023-2026. According to auditors' findings, 2.7 billion rubles were spent on idle capabilities of Gosuvlak.
In addition, the Ministry of Digital Development fined Rostelecom 1.35 billion rubles for operating the platform. The violations concerned the availability of information systems, the untimely provision of information on execution partners and the absence of data on the use of the platform's resources. A Rostelecom representative declined to comment.
At the same time, Gosuvlak's resource management mechanism made it possible to save 16.6 billion rubles, or 30.2% of the initially planned order volumes, the joint venture report said. The total cost of orders for cloud services through Gosovalko in 2023-2026. amounted to 37.7 billion rubles. At the same time, almost 85% of the amount, or about 32 billion rubles, fell on the four largest consumers of the platform in descending order - the Ministry of Digital Development, the Social Fund of Russia, Rosreister and the Ministry of Health.
As the representative of the Ministry for Digital Development explained to Vadomosti, insufficient utilization does not mean that the capacity was not used. "Resources have been provided to operate departmental information systems, and the intensity of their use may change," he added.
In addition, the availability of free resources cannot be a loss, but an insurance policy, says independent expert in the field of information security Denis Betankov. Using the example of attacks on large data centers, at the stage of system deployment, the presence of a free reserve is justified, he noted.