September 2026

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User Privileges for Nextcloud Workspace Management

September 4

You can now control which IONOS CLOUD users in your organization can provision, edit, and delete Nextcloud Workspaces. A new DCD group privilege called Access and manage Nextcloud Workspace allows you to delegate infrastructure-level administration. This privilege governs administrative access at the IONOS CLOUD level only, and it does not affect user, group, or permission management within your Nextcloud Workspace instance.

DBaaS MariaDB v2 is now available in the DCD

September 3

You can now create and manage IONOS CLOUD DBaaS MariaDB v2 clusters in the Data Center Designer (DCD). MariaDB v2 supports MariaDB Long-Term Support (LTS) versions, including 10.6, 10.11, 11.4, 11.8, and 12.3. The DCD supports the full lifecycle of v2 clusters, including cluster creation, configuration updates, backup-based restore, and cluster deletion.

New Block Storage performance classes

September 1

Block Storage offers three new performance classes for Virtual Data Centers (VDCs):

• Essential: Cost-efficient, for infrequently-accessed data and backups.
• Balanced: General-purpose, balancing cost and performance.
• Performance: High-throughput, for databases and latency-sensitive applications.

Existing VDCs storage types are unaffected. The following changes apply to new and existing VDCs:

• New storage created through the DCD supports only the new Storage Performance classes.
• New storage created through the API or Terraform supports Essential, Balanced and Performance storage classes and HDD, SSD Standard, and SSD Premium for backward compatibility. For more information, see FAQ.

These new performance classes rename the previous HDD and SSD options; the underlying technology is unchanged.

NIC Multi-Queue for Network File Storage

September 1

IONOS CLOUD Network File Storage (NFS) clusters now automatically use NIC Multi-Queue, distributing network traffic across multiple queues based on available CPU cores to improve throughput and reduce latency. The feature is activated by default on NFS clusters with at least two CPU threads (two cores, or one core with hyperthreading) and requires no additional configuration.

Documentation updates

Compliance Documentation for AI Model Hub

September 4

The two compliance pages for AI Model Hub have been revised. The EU AI Act page now sets out how the roles under the Act are allocated between the model developers as providers of the AI models, IONOS CLOUD as provider of the AI system, and you as deployer. It also adds a notice on the Article 50(2) marking obligation for AI-generated content, and a subsection allocating each of the Article 50 obligations.

The Data Handling page has been rewritten and now describes in more detail what happens to your data when you use the service.

Cost and Usage FAQs for AI Model Hub

September 4

The AI Model Hub FAQ now explains how usage is measured for each type of model and how to retrieve your usage through the IONOS CLOUD Billing API.

Query Monitoring Service Metrics from Your External Grafana Instance

September 1

A new tutorial demonstrates how to connect your external Grafana instance to the IONOS CLOUD Monitoring Service using the internal Grafana data source proxy. The tutorial covers creating a service account token in IONOS CLOUD Grafana, locating the Grafana Mimir datasource Unique Identifier (UID), and configuring the external Grafana instance with the correct authentication and datasource URL.

Responses API for AI Model Hub

September 1

A new how-to guide covers the AI Model Hub Responses API at /v1/responses, an alternative to chat completions that takes a flat list of input items and returns typed output items. It shows how to send a request, read the typed output (including the model's reasoning trace), call a tool and return its result, and lists which parts of the OpenAI Responses API are not available.