Autonomous system
AS8263 Cloud-Megafon PJSC MegaFon
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
MegaFon Cloud
hosting cloud legacy
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
178.176.224.0/23and adjacent space, registered under the netnameMF-STF-Cloud-DC1and 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. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS25159 | PJSC MegaFon | 183 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-01, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RU | Russian Federation | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS8263- Registry name
- Cloud-Megafon
- Registrant
- MEGAFON-RIPE-MNT
- Abuse contact
- abuse-mailbox@megafon.ru
- Registered
- 2002-08-06
- Last changed
- 2019-11-05
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 3 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 3 authorising AS8263
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 4 naming AS8263
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 447 networks and 1,843 prefixes, as published 2026-11-02. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere