AS8263 — CLOUD-MEGAFON PJSC MegaFon

AS8263 announces 2 IPv4 prefixes covering 768 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

CLOUD-MEGAFON is a small autonomous system belonging to PJSC MegaFon, the Russian telecommunications group. Despite the parent's name, this AS is not the mobile network: it carries MegaFon's cloud and data-centre estate.

What it's used for

• Announces three /24s inside 178.176.224.0/23 and adjacent space, registered under the netname MF-STF-Cloud-DC1 and maintained by MegaFon's own maintainers. The netname is the whole story: a MegaFon cloud data centre.
• Hosted and virtual-machine workloads for MegaFon cloud customers.

Notable

• A kind trap. MegaFon is one of Russia's big four mobile operators, so the name pulls toward mobile. It is the wrong answer here. This AS holds well under a thousand addresses, has no subscriber pools, and its registry netname says Cloud-DC. MegaFon's actual mobile and broadband subscribers are numbered on other, far larger autonomous systems.
• Sampled addresses carry no reverse DNS at all, which is typical of cloud address space handed to tenants rather than named by the operator.
• The low AS number is a legacy allocation; the current use of the AS is modern cloud hosting.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 178.176.224.0/23
• 178.176.226.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS25159 PJSC MegaFon

Adjacent networks

• AS25159 PJSC MegaFon