July 2026

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DBaaS MariaDB v2 API in General Availability

July 6

The IONOS CLOUD DBaaS MariaDB v2 API is now in General Availability (GA). The v2 API is available across all nine IONOS CLOUD regions: Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, Logroño, London, Worcester, Las Vegas, Lenexa, and Newark.

Any IONOS CLOUD contract can provision MariaDB v2 clusters without prior activation. The v2 API introduces token-based authentication (Bearer JWT), dedicated BackupLocations and Versions endpoints, Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) through restoreFromBackup with sourceBackupId and recoveryTargetDatetime, configurable backup retention from 1 to 365 days through backup.retentionDays, and observability controls (logsEnabled, metricsEnabled). For detailed information, see DBaaS MariaDB v2 Cloud API.

Important: The MariaDB v1 API will be deprecated in an upcoming release. All existing v1 clusters will be automatically migrated to v2 with no user action needed. We recommend creating new clusters using MariaDB v2 endpoints to leverage the new capabilities.

Support for Kafka version 4.0.0

July 1

Event Streams for Apache Kafka service will now support Kafka version 4.0.0 starting July 1, 2026.

Deprecations

Deprecation of Kafka version support 3.9.0 and 3.9.1

July 1

Effective July 1, Event Streams for Apache Kafka versions 3.9.0 and 3.9.1 are deprecated. Existing Kafka clusters using these versions will continue to operate and are unimpacted by this change. However, we recommend using version 4.0.0 for new Kafka clusters.

AI Model Studio End of Life

July 1

Effective July 1, IONOS CLOUD no longer supports AI Model Studio. The product has reached end of life and is no longer available. If you are looking for AI inference capabilities, see AI Model Hub.