April 2025

What's new

Support for tool calling in the AI Model Hub

April 17

We are thrilled that our AI Model Hub now supports tool calling. It gives you new opportunities when using our Large Language Models (LLMs). You can ingest API endpoints and let the LLM decide whether to answer with trained knowledge, data retrieved from your vector database, or data from these API endpoints.

Microsoft SQL Server Image Availability

April 16

IONOS Public Images now supports using Microsoft SQL Server Images to configure Block Storage. The following combinations are available:

• MSSQL-2019 (All Editions) on Windows-2019

• MSSQL-2022 (All Editions) on Windows-2022

These images are available via both the DCD and the API. The Microsoft SQL Enterprise Server Images are available only upon contacting IONOS Cloud Support.

New Location Support for Event Streams for Apache Kafka

April 15

We are excited to announce the launch of Event Streams for Apache Kafka in our Las Vegas, United States (us-las), France, Paris (fr-par), and Spain, Logroño (es-vit) data centers in addition to the existing location support in Germany, United Kindom, and the United States. Supporting these new locations ensures we can offer a co-located Managed Kafka at any of our existing data centers. The new endpoints are kafka.us-las, kafka.fr-par, and kafka.es-vit.

Activated KMS Service for Windows Guests

April 2

At IONOS, we are excited to announce the integration of Key Management Service (KMS) for seamless activation and management of Microsoft Windows operating systems within our cloud infrastructure. While the activation process for new Windows instances will continue to occur automatically, this enhancement will facilitate the reactivation and management of existing Windows instances.

Server Type Selection for Kubernetes Node Pools

April 1

IONOS offers greater flexibility and simplicity for users to choose the server type as either Dedicated Core or vCPU for their Managed Kubernetes nodes. You can also choose to update the server type even after the node pool creation. This capability is supported both via the DCD and the API. To support this function, in the DCD, you see the new field Server type in the Node Template section while creating a Kubernetes node pool.

Discontinuing support for AMD Opteron Servers on IONOS Public Cloud in Frankfurt

April 1 IONOS announces the upcoming phasing out of AMD Opteron servers in the Frankfurt (de/fra) data center. This decision is part of our ongoing efforts to improve the product and align it with more efficient and future-proof solutions.

Alternative options: For continued functionality, you can transition to Dedicated Core server with AMD Epyc CPU architecture or to a vCPU Server. You can manually change to one of these options from April 1, 2025, until May 13, 2025. Starting on May 13, 2025, eligible systems running AMD Opteron-based Compute Engine workloads will automatically begin transitioning to AMD Epyc processors within the Frankfurt location.