Documentation Portal Announcements

🎉Changes as of April 2, 2024

As part of our ongoing documentation portal redesign, we have significantly enhanced its layout, appearance, and navigation to provide an unmatched user experience and improved visibility of our products and product categories. Consequently, you will observe changes in the product listing on the vertical navigation bar on the left side of this page.

We aim to improve the visibility of our functional products and make documentation easily discoverable. Our team has worked diligently to ensure these modifications align with the best practices in documentation portal design and user experience. The result is a documentation portal that offers our users a streamlined and efficient browsing experience.

Note: The functionality of the products and their associated features remain unaffected.

What's changing?

Across the documentation portal:

• The new look and feel of the document, with refreshing color and font style changes, make the content visually appealing.

• Appealing banners differentiate between different documentation sections, such as User Guides, Developer Reference, Support, and FAQs.

• A new Log in tab on the horizontal navigation bar redirects to the DCD log in page.

• APIs, SDKs & Tools tab on the horizontal navigation bar have been renamed to Developer Reference.

Highlights of the Documentation Portal changes

On the landing page:

• Well-categorized and comprehensive sections for IONOS Cloud products and services: Getting Started, Developer Reference, Product User Guides, and Security.

• Card-based layouts for products:

  • Bite-sized snippets of information provide an overview of the product.

  • Clickable cards swiftly redirect to the landing page of the respective product documentation.

• Product Categories and Products:

  • Listed in an alphabetical order on the landing page and on the vertical navigation bar on the left side of this page.

  • To ensure sync with the newly designed product catalog on the IONOS website, specific:

    • Products have either moved to an existing product category or placed under a newly added product category.

    • Product names have changed.

On the vertical navigation bar:

The product and product categories precisely match the order displayed on the landing page, and they are perfectly synchronized with the product catalog available on the IONOS website.

Who’s impacted, and what about availability?

End users can view upgrades via the accessible public documentation portal.

What changed in the product categories?

The changes include the following:

Effective changes to product categories:

Old Product Category	New or Updated Product Category	Effective Change
Compute	Compute Services	Renamed
-	Containers	Added
-	Databases	Added
-	Data Analytics	Added
Early Access	-	Removed. Products under this category are moved to their relevant product category.
Managed Services	-	Removed. Products under this category are moved to their relevant product category.
-	Network Services	Added
-	Observability	Added
-	Storage & Backup	Added

List of products with new names:

Old Product Name	Updated Product Name
Cloud Cubes	Cubes
Container Registry	Private Container Registry
Application Load Balancer	Managed Application Load Balancer
Enable Flow Logs	Flow Logs
NAT Gateway	Managed NAT Gateway
Network Load Balancer	Managed Network Load Balancer

Product recategorization:

Product Name	Old Product Category	New Product Category
Backup Service	Managed Services	Storage & Backup
Block Storage	Compute	Storage & Backup
Cloud DNS	Managed Services	Network Services
Cross Connect	Early Access	Network Services
DDoS Protect	None	Network Services
Flow Logs	None	Network Services
IONOS S3 Object Storage	Managed Services	Storage & Backup
IPv6 Configuration	None	Network Services
Logging Service	Managed Services	Observability
Managed Application Load Balancer	Managed Services	Network Services
Managed Kubernetes	Managed Services	Containers
Managed NAT Gateway	Managed Services	Network Services
Managed Stackable Data Platform	Managed Services	Data Analytics
MongoDB	Managed Services	Databases
Monitoring as a Service	Managed Services	Observability
VM Auto Scaling	Early Access	Compute Services
PostgreSQL	Managed Services	Databases
Private Container Registry	Managed Services	Containers
VDC Networking	None	Network Services

🕕Rollout pace

We are publishing changes in phases on the documentation portal, which means that it is constantly evolving. However, the product's functionality and features remain unaffected. We will keep you updated about all changes here.