> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/release-notes/august-2026.md).

# August 2026

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## What's new

### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Additional Data Center is now operational in Frankfurt, Germany**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/general-information/service-catalog)

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**August 18**

<code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> has launched a new data center, `de/fra/1`, in the **Frankfurt** region. It is directly networked to the existing `de/fra` and `de/fra/2` locations, ensuring high availability, failover redundancy, and operational security. The data center runs on Intel Sierra Forest and AMD EPYC Turin processors.

The new data center appears in the [<mark style="color:blue;">Data Center Designer (DCD)</mark>](/cloud/set-up-ionos-cloud/data-center-designer.md) location selector as **Germany / Frankfurt am Main (de/fra/1)** and is available via the [<mark style="color:blue;">Cloud API</mark>](https://api.ionos.com/docs/cloud/v6/) as `de/fra/1`.

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* The `de/fra/1` support for [<mark style="color:blue;">Confidential VM</mark>](/cloud/compute-services/compute-engine/confidential-computing-vm.md) and [<mark style="color:blue;">MongoDB</mark>](/cloud/databases/mongodb.md) will be available soon. For more information, see [<mark style="color:blue;">Service Catalog</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/general-information/service-catalog).
* All <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> services are supported in `de/fra/1`, except for [<mark style="color:blue;">Cloud GPU VMs</mark>](/cloud/compute-services/compute-engine/cloud-gpu-vm.md).
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Introducing IONOS CLOUD Tracing Service**</mark>](/cloud/observability/tracing-service.md)

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**August 17**

<code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> **Tracing Service** is now available. It provides a centralized and scalable solution for collecting, storing, and analyzing distributed traces from your applications, services, and infrastructure.

Create a tracing pipeline to receive an authenticated ingestion endpoint for your traces. Each pipeline supports OTLP/HTTP and OTLP/gRPC ingestion protocols, a trace ingestion key, and a Grafana endpoint for trace exploration. The service stores traces for a 30-day retention period. Billing is based on trace ingestion volume (GB) and trace storage (GB).
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Advisory on CrackArmor Vulnerability**</mark>](/cloud/security-safeguards/vulnerability-register/2026/ubuntu-crack-armor-vulnerability.md)

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**August 13**

Information on the security advisory for **CrackArmor** is now available in the documentation portal. Disclosed on March 19, 2026, this vulnerability affects [<mark style="color:blue;">Managed Kubernetes</mark>](/cloud/containers/managed-kubernetes.md) node images and allows an attacker with code execution inside a container to escape the container boundary and gain access to the underlying host operating system.

<code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> has applied updated Managed Kubernetes node images across all regions to mitigate the vulnerability.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**OTLP support for Logging Service and Monitoring Service**</mark>](/cloud/observability/logging-service/overview/log-pipelines.md)

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**August 13**

<code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> **Logging Service** and **Monitoring Service** now support the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) for ingesting telemetry data.

* **Logging Service:** Create a log stream with `"protocol": "otlp"` to ingest logs at the pipeline's `/<TAG>` endpoint. An OTLP stream requires only `tag` and `protocol`. You can mix `otlp`, `http`, and `tcp` streams within the same pipeline. For more information, see [<mark style="color:blue;">Log Pipelines</mark>](/cloud/observability/logging-service/overview/log-pipelines.md).
* **Monitoring Service:** Push metrics in OTLP format to the pipeline's `/otlp/v1/metrics` endpoint. Metrics are ingested directly without conversion to the Prometheus remote-write format. OpenTelemetry exponential histograms sent over OTLP are queryable as Prometheus native histograms in Grafana. For more information, see [<mark style="color:blue;">Metric Formats</mark>](/cloud/observability/monitoring-service/overview/metric-formats.md).
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Introducing Confidential VM**</mark>](/cloud/compute-services/compute-engine/confidential-computing-vm.md)

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**August 12**

<code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> supports **Confidential VM**, a hardware-enforced security technology that encrypts virtual machine (VM) memory and CPU state at runtime using AMD SEV-SNP (Secure Encrypted Virtualization, Secure Nested Paging), ensuring that **data in use** remains protected from the cloud provider, hypervisor, and host administrators. Workloads run inside a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), where sensitive data and code are cryptographically isolated within the AMD CPU and inaccessible to unauthorized users even at the infrastructure level.

Organizations handling regulated data, including financial services, healthcare, and public sector workloads, can use <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> Confidential VMs to meet zero-trust security requirements and enforce data sovereignty. Confidential VMs can be attested using the <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> reference toolchain. For more information, see [<mark style="color:blue;">SNPGuard</mark>](https://github.com/ionos-cloud/snp-guard).
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Product approval process is now live for IONOS CLOUD Partners**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/partner-program)

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**August 6**

To improve the <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> partner experience and help ensure compliance with [<mark style="color:blue;">Marketplace</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/partner-program/partner-program/marketplace) guidelines, the <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> Marketplace now includes a product approval process.

Before publishing a product to the Marketplace, partners with an active [<mark style="color:blue;">Partner Network</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/partner-program/partner-program/partner-network) profile submit a product approval request through the [<mark style="color:blue;">Partner Portal</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/partner-program/partner-portal-first-steps/complete-your-partner-profile#sign-in-to-the-partner-portal). The Account Management team reviews each request and publishes approved products to the Marketplace, providing a rejection reason if a request is not approved so partners can address the issue and resubmit. For more information, contact your dedicated Partner Account Manager.
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## Documentation updates

### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Trace n8n Workflow Executions with the Tracing Service**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/tutorials/observability/tracing-service/trace-n8n-workflows-with-tracing-service)

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**August 17**

A new tutorial shows how to export n8n workflow and node execution traces to the <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> Tracing Service using n8n's built-in OpenTelemetry support, with no code changes. It covers creating a tracing pipeline, configuring n8n through the settings UI or environment variables, running a workflow, and exploring the resulting `workflow.execute` and `node.execute` spans in Grafana with TraceQL.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Trace an AI Agent that Uses AI Model Hub with the Tracing Service**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/tutorials/observability/tracing-service/trace-ai-agent-using-ai-model-hub-with-tracing-service)

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**August 17**

A new tutorial shows how to instrument a Python AI agent that calls <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> AI Model Hub and export GenAI traces to the Tracing Service. It covers creating a tracing pipeline, instrumenting the agent with the OpenAI OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and exploring `gen_ai.*` span attributes such as the model, token usage, latency, and prompts in Grafana with TraceQL.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Deploy a Confidential VM with SNPGuard**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/tutorials/compute-services/compute-engine/deploy-confidential-computing-vm-with-snpguard)

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**August 12**

A new end-to-end tutorial for deploying a Confidential VM with SNPGuard is now available. The tutorial covers attestation server deployment, converting a base image to a confidential format with LUKS2 encryption, registering the expected measurement with the attestation server, and creating the Confidential VM using the <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> API. It demonstrates a full workload integrity lifecycle, from image preparation through runtime attestation, using the [<mark style="color:blue;">SNPGuard</mark>](https://github.com/ionos-cloud/snp-guard) reference toolchain.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Migration guide: Migrate Compute Engine Types**</mark>](/cloud/compute-services/compute-engine/how-tos/migrate-compute-engine-types.md)

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**August 5**

A new migration guide is available for <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> Compute Engine. The guide covers how to move between **vCPU Server**, **Dedicated Core Server**, and **Cube** server types, including the Storage Drag & Drop and Snapshot methods, using the <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> Backup Service, and the BIOS/UEFI firmware compatibility rules required to avoid start failures.
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## Deprecations

### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Deprecation of Llama 3.1 8B**</mark>](/cloud/ai/ai-model-hub/models/llms/meta-llama-3-1-8b.md)

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**August 12**

Llama 3.1 8B is deprecated and will be removed from the <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> AI Model Hub on **October 1, 2026**. We recommend migrating to [<mark style="color:blue;">**Qwen3.5 9B**</mark>](/cloud/ai/ai-model-hub/models/llms/qwen3-5-9b.md), its designated successor. After removal, requests using this model ID will receive an `HTTP 400 Bad Request` response with an "Invalid model name" error, instead of being served by the model.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Deprecation of Llama 3.1 405B**</mark>](/cloud/ai/ai-model-hub/models/llms/meta-llama-3-1-405b.md)

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**August 6**

Llama 3.1 405B is deprecated and will be removed from the <code class="expression">space.vars.ionos\_cloud</code> AI Model Hub on **September 15, 2026**. We recommend migrating to [<mark style="color:blue;">**Qwen3.5 397B A17B**</mark>](/cloud/ai/ai-model-hub/models/llms/qwen3-5-397b.md), its designated successor. After removal, requests using this model ID will receive an `HTTP 400 Bad Request` response with an "Invalid model name" error, instead of being served by the model.
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