December 2023

What's new

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 Images

December 20

IONOS CLOUD now supports RHEL 8 images as part of our ongoing commitment to offering RHEL support to our users. As a result, RHEL 8 images are now compatible with the IONOS Public Cloud architecture.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 Images

December 18

IONOS CLOUD is a certified partner of Red Hat and is authorized to provide and run Red Hat Enterprise Linux inside the IONOS Public Cloud infrastructure. This applies to public RHEL 9 images supplied by IONOS CLOUD.

Private Node Pools

December 15

Managed Kubernetes now supports Private Node Pools, providing enhanced security, isolation, and flexibility to manage your Kubernetes workloads. You can create Private Node Pools within your Managed Kubernetes clusters to ensure your critical workloads remain secure and protected.

Enhanced Features Released for Backup Service

December 15

Now you can enable advanced features to boost the protection of your workloads:

• Advanced Backup ensures continuous protection of your data, capturing even the most recent updates to prevent loss.
• Advanced Security offers comprehensive, continuous malware threat mitigation for your data environments.
• Advanced Management facilitates the patching of vulnerabilities within your protected data scope.

Renamed Managed Backup to Backup Service

December 15

IONOS CLOUD has renamed Managed Backup to Backup Service to standardize the product terminology. Earlier, Managed Backup was also referred to as Backup as a Service or Backup by Acronis across different platforms. The new unified name ensures consistency in our communications and branding. This change does not impact the product's functionality, and the service remains unchanged. The documentation portal now reflects the product name changes. For more information, see FAQ.

Revamped IONOS CLOUD Object Storage DCD Console

December 14

IONOS CLOUD offers a revamped DCD console for IONOS CLOUD Object Storage in the General Availability (GA) phase. It is an enhanced version of the old DCD console, providing improved user experience and performance, intuitive design, contextual help, and faster responsiveness. The console navigation label is renamed to IONOS CLOUD Object Storage in the DCD.

New Feature Set in IONOS CLOUD Object Storage

December 14

IONOS CLOUD Object Storage offers the Bucket Policy, view object versions and metadata, and Object Lock features in the General Availability (GA) phase. Using Bucket Policy, overarching access policies for a bucket can be set to control data access and usage. With Object Lock, data can be secured by implementing retention policies or legal holds; and with object versions and metadata, object retrieval is easier for large volumes of unstructured data. These new features overall improve the access and data management in the Object Storage.

Container Registry Vulnerability Scanning General Availability

December 13

IONOS CLOUD offers the new Container Registry Vulnerability Scanning feature in General Availability (GA) phase. Software development is constantly evolving, and security is our top priority. The Container Registry Vulnerability Scanning feature is specifically designed to enhance the security of your containerized applications by proactively identifying potential vulnerabilities present in your artifacts. Scans occur each time an artifact is pushed to the registry and when new vulnerability definitions are published. It quickly detects any security weaknesses in container dependencies and libraries, allowing you to react immediately to prevent exploitation. For more information about reviewing the vulnerability scan results, see View Vulnerability Scan Results.

This feature will be available when creating new container registries, and you can also enable it for existing registries. For more information, see Enable Vulnerability Scanning.

New Container Registry Web Console

December 13

IONOS CLOUD offers the New Container Registry Web Console, an enhanced version of the existing Container Registry Web Console, providing improved user experience and performance, intuitive design, faster responsiveness and additional features than the existing Container Registry Web Console. For more information, see DCD How-Tos.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Images

December 4

IONOS CLOUD is a certified partner of Red Hat and are authorized to provide and run Red Hat Enterprise Linux inside the IONOS Public Cloud infrastructure. This is applicable to both public RHEL images supplied by IONOS CLOUD and user-uploaded private RHEL images.

Documentation updates

Reorganized subtopics in Block Storage

December 18

The subtopics in the Block Storage section have been updated. It now contains a new Images and Snapshots section with the appropriate subtopics—IONOS CLOUD Public Images and Private Images. For more information, see Images and Snapshots.

Reorganized subtopics in Block Storage

December 4

The subtopics in the Block Storage section have been updated. It now contains a new Images and Snapshots section with the appropriate subtopics—Public Images and Private Images. For more information, see Images and Snapshots.