# July 2025

## What's new

### [<mark style="color:blue;">**IONOS Object Storage Expansion in the Frankfurt Region**</mark>](/cloud/backup-and-storage/ionos-object-storage/overview.md#service-availability)

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**July 23**

IONOS Object Storage is expanding support of [<mark style="color:blue;">Contract-owned Buckets</mark>](/cloud/backup-and-storage/ionos-object-storage/concepts/bucket-types.md#contract-owned-buckets) to the metro region of Frankfurt, Germany `de`. It is available for use at the `eu-central-4` endpoint. For more information, see [<mark style="color:blue;">Endpoints</mark>](/cloud/backup-and-storage/ionos-object-storage/endpoints.md).
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**IAM Federation for Authentication**</mark>](/cloud/set-up-ionos-cloud/management/identity-access-management/iam-federation.md)

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**July 21**

Identity and Access Management (IAM) Federation now supports organizations in onboarding their Identity Provider (IDP) and allowing their users to link their account with IONOS Cloud. With this feature, the user can [<mark style="color:blue;">Log in to the Data Center Designer using IDP</mark>](/cloud/set-up-ionos-cloud/management/identity-access-management/iam-federation/how-tos/log-in-dcd-identity-provider.md), which also facilitates Single Sign-On (SSO).
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**IONOS Cloud Provider for Pulumi**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/reference/config-management-tools/config-management-tools#tab-pulumi)

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**July 16**

We are pleased to announce the release of the new IONOS Cloud provider for Pulumi. With this release, developers and DevOps teams can now use Pulumi’s powerful Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework to define, deploy, and manage resources on IONOS Cloud more efficiently and flexibly. For more information, see [<mark style="color:blue;">IONOS Cloud provider for Pulumi</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/pulumi-ionoscloud).
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