Documentation Portal Announcements

🎉Changes as of April 2, 2024

As part of our ongoing documentation portal redesign, we have significantly enhanced its layout, appearance, and navigation to provide an unmatched user experience and improved visibility of our products and product categories. Consequently, you will observe changes in the product listing on the vertical navigation bar on the left side of this page.

We aim to improve the visibility of our functional products and make documentation easily discoverable. Our team has worked diligently to ensure these modifications align with the best practices in documentation portal design and user experience. The result is a documentation portal that offers our users a streamlined and efficient browsing experience.

Note: The functionality of the products and their associated features remain unaffected.

What's changing?

Across the documentation portal:

  • The new look and feel of the document, with refreshing color and font style changes, make the content visually appealing.

  • Appealing banners differentiate between different documentation sections, such as User Guides, Developer Reference, Support, and FAQs.

  • A new Log in tab on the horizontal navigation bar redirects to the DCD log in page.

  • APIs, SDKs & Tools tab on the horizontal navigation bar have been renamed to Developer Reference.

On the landing page:

  • Well-categorized and comprehensive sections for IONOS Cloud products and services: Getting Started, Developer Reference, Product User Guides, and Security.

  • Card-based layouts for products:

    • Bite-sized snippets of information provide an overview of the product.

    • Clickable cards swiftly redirect to the landing page of the respective product documentation.

  • Product Categories and Products:

    • Listed in an alphabetical order on the landing page and on the vertical navigation bar on the left side of this page.

    • To ensure sync with the newly designed product catalog on the IONOS website, specific:

      • Products have either moved to an existing product category or placed under a newly added product category.

      • Product names have changed.

On the vertical navigation bar:

The product and product categories precisely match the order displayed on the landing page, and they are perfectly synchronized with the product catalog available on the IONOS website.

Who’s impacted, and what about availability?

End users can view upgrades via the accessible public documentation portal.

What changed in the product categories?

The changes include the following:

Effective changes to product categories:

Old Product CategoryNew or Updated Product CategoryEffective Change

Compute

Compute Services

Renamed

-

Containers

Added

-

Databases

Added

-

Data Analytics

Added

Early Access

-

Removed. Products under this category are moved to their relevant product category.

Managed Services

-

Removed. Products under this category are moved to their relevant product category.

-

Network Services

Added

-

Observability

Added

-

Storage & Backup

Added

List of products with new names:

Old Product NameUpdated Product Name

Cloud Cubes

Cubes

Container Registry

Private Container Registry

Application Load Balancer

Managed Application Load Balancer

Enable Flow Logs

Flow Logs

NAT Gateway

Managed NAT Gateway

Network Load Balancer

Managed Network Load Balancer

Product recategorization:

Product NameOld Product CategoryNew Product Category

Backup Service

Managed Services

Storage & Backup

Block Storage

Compute

Storage & Backup

Cloud DNS

Managed Services

Network Services

Cross Connect

Early Access

Network Services

DDoS Protect

None

Network Services

Flow Logs

None

Network Services

IONOS S3 Object Storage

Managed Services

Storage & Backup

IPv6 Configuration

None

Network Services

Logging Service

Managed Services

Observability

Managed Application Load Balancer

Managed Services

Network Services

Managed Kubernetes

Managed Services

Containers

Managed NAT Gateway

Managed Services

Network Services

Managed Stackable Data Platform

Managed Services

Data Analytics

MongoDB

Managed Services

Databases

Monitoring as a Service

Managed Services

Observability

VM Auto Scaling

Early Access

Compute Services

PostgreSQL

Managed Services

Databases

Private Container Registry

Managed Services

Containers

VDC Networking

None

Network Services

🕕Rollout pace

We are publishing changes in phases on the documentation portal, which means that it is constantly evolving. However, the product's functionality and features remain unaffected. We will keep you updated about all changes here.

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