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# Documentation Portal Announcements
## :tada:Changes as of April 2, 2024
As part of our ongoing [documentation portal](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud) 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.
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**Note:** The functionality of the products and their associated features remain unaffected.
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### 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](https://dcd.ionos.com/latest/) log in page.
* **APIs, SDKs & Tools** tab on the horizontal navigation bar have been renamed to **Developer Reference**.
#### 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](https://cloud.ionos.com/compute).
### 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 |
### :clock6: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.
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