December 20

IONOS 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.

December 18

IONOS 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.

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.

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.

December 15

IONOS 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 FAQs.

December 14

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

December 14

IONOS 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.

December 13

IONOS 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.

December 13

IONOS 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.

December 4

IONOS 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 and user-uploaded private RHEL images.

December 18

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

December 4

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

October 26

The documentation portal now contains information about the new security advisories that Acronis reported. You can find more details about the reported vulnerabilities on the following pages:

October 25

VM Auto Scaling is now available as an Early Access (EA) feature. It is a cloud computing feature that dynamically scales in or scales out the number of virtual machine instances (horizontal scaling) based on customizable monitoring events. The metric-based policy, defined during its configuration, constantly monitors the load and regularly scales the number of VM instances based on the policy threshold. The functionality ensures that the number of replicas in the group remains within the defined constraints.

October 18

The documentation for Backup Service has been updated to include a new section called Install the Acronis Backup Agent on Linux. This section provides prerequisites, step-by-step instructions, and configuration options to ensure a seamless installation experience.

September 20

IONOS offers the New Object Storage Web Console (Beta), an enhanced version of the existing Object Storage Web Console in the DCD, providing improved user experience and performance, intuitive design, and faster responsiveness while having the same feature set as the existing web console. Currently, the feature is in the Beta phase and is available by default to all new and existing users. You are encouraged to try out the new web console. This new application console does not impact the functionality of the existing web console.

September 4

The Cloud DNS is now in General Availability (GA) phase. You can publish DNS zones of your domains and subdomains on public Name Servers using Cloud DNS. With the Cloud DNS API, you can create DNS zones and DNS records, import and export DNS zones, secure your DNS zones with DNSSEC and create secondary zones. Additionally, you can also set up ExternalDNS for your with Cloud DNS.

July 17

Managed Stackable version 23.4 is now newly available and the only version currently supported for creating a new Managed Stackable cluster. Older clusters retain their original version.

July 7

The documentation for Managed Kubernetes has been updated to include information about the maintenance window as well as the cluster and node pool maintenance processes.

July 7

The documentation for Managed Kubernetes has been updated to include information about Kubernetes versions and their availability.

July 5

The Vulnerability Register serves as a comprehensive record detailing security vulnerabilities that impact IONOS Cloud products and services. This report has been developed as an integral component of our continuous commitment to assist you in effectively mitigating security risks and safeguarding the integrity of your systems.

July 3

Application Load Balancer is now Generally Available (GA). With the Application Load Balancer (ALB), incoming application layer traffic can be routed to targets based on user-defined rules.

July 3

Network Load Balancer is now Generally Available (GA). With the Network Load Balancer (NLB), you can automatically distribute workloads over several servers, which minimizes disruptions during scaling.

July 3

NAT Gateway is now Generally Available (GA). With the NAT Gateway, you can enable internet access to virtual machines without exposing them to the internet by a public interface. It acts as an intermediary device that translates IP addresses between the private network and the public internet.

June 20

Debian 12 HDD and ISO images are now accessible through the Data Center Designer (DCD) and the Cloud API. These latest Debian images are compatible with all IONOS Compute Engine instances, including Dedicated Core Servers and Cloud Cubes.

June 1

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is now a General Availability (GA) feature for all IONOS Compute Engine instances of type Dedicated Core Servers and Cloud Cubes. Applications can now be hosted in the dual stack with connectivity over both IPv6 and IPv4 within virtual data centers and to and from the internet.

June 1

Firewall rules configuration for a Network Interface Card (NIC) is now extended to support IPv6. With this enhancement, Firewall rules support ICMPv6 as a protocol, IPv6 addresses as source or destination IPs, and lets you specify the IP version for which a given rule is applicable.

June 1

With IONOS extending IPv6 support to Compute Engine instances, you can now use the Flow Logs to capture data related to IPv6 network traffic flows in addition to IPv4.

August 18

This is solely for informational purpose and does not require any action from you. IONOS has renamed Virtual Server(s) to Dedicated Core Server(s). This change does not impact the functionality of the product in any manner. As a result, the documentation portal now reflects the product name changes. For more information, see Product Renaming FAQs.

August 18

Added information on security advisory for CVE-2022-40982, also known as “Gather Data Sampling” (GDS) or “Downfall” here.

August 14

IONOS MongoDB database cluster offers MongoDB Enterprise edition supporting versions 5.0 and 6.0 to suit the requirements of enterprise-level deployments. This edition provides advanced capabilities such as sharding database type, enabling the BI Connector, and more resources - CPU cores, RAM size (GB), and storage types to create database clusters. Additionally, the enterprise database clusters facilitate point-in-time recovery and offsite backup features making these clusters highly reliable.

August 10

A vCPU Server is a new virtual machine provisioned and hosted in one of IONOS's physical data centers. It behaves like a physical server and can be used as a standalone product or combined with other IONOS cloud products. To configure a vCPU Server, choose a preset (S, M, L, XL, and XXL) that suits your needs. Presets are a combination of specific vCPU-to-RAM ratios. The number of vCPUs and RAMs differs based on the selected preset. You can also tailor the vCPU-to-RAM ratios to meet your requirements—the Preset automatically changes to Custom when you edit the predefined ratio.

August 8

The documentation for Kubernetes Versions now contains the following details:

• Managed Kubernetes releases Kubernetes version 1.27; hence, the Available column now mentions the release date.

• Kubernetes version 1.24 has reached an end-of-life; hence, the Kubernetes end of life column has been updated accordingly.

August 10

The following sections have been renamed in the documentation portal:

• Compute Engine is now called Compute.

• Virtual Machines is now called Compute Engine.

August 10

Cloud Cubes is no longer under Virtual Machines, but an independent section under Compute.

November 28

Application Load Balancers (ALB) and Network Load Balancers (NLB) now support Proxy Protocol versions to send additional connection information, such as the source and destination. The Targets associated with your ALB and NLB can now be configured to accept incoming traffic using the Proxy Protocol.

November 23

Information on security advisory for CVE-2023-23583, also known as Escalation of privilege for some Intel processors vulnerability, is available on the documentation portal. This vulnerability is based on an unexpected behavior for some Intel(R) processors that may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and information disclosure or denial of service via local access.

November 15

Logging Service is now in the General Availability (GA) phase. You can create logging pipeline instances on the available locations to gather logs from multiple sources. You may also programmatically manage your logging pipelines via the API. To learn more about what changed during the transition from the Early Access (EA) phase to the GA phase, see Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

November 13

Cross Connect is now available as an Early Access (EA) feature on a restricted early access basis. To access this feature, please contact your sales representative or customer support. With the enhanced feature, you can connect multiple Virtual Data Centers (VDCs) seamlessly in the same region and under the same contract. Connections can be established via a private LAN only, thus enabling consistent and reliable data transfer and ensuring seamless connections, reduced latency, and minimized addressing discrepancies. Cross Connects are flexible, meaning you can easily modify the existing setup by effortlessly adding or deleting existing data centers or modifying the associated data centers.

November 2

Information on security advisory for CVE-2023-34048, also known as vCenter Server out-of-bounds write vulnerability is available on the documentation portal. This vulnerability allows an attacker with network access to trigger an out-of-bounds write that can lead to remote code execution.

November 1

Information on security advisory for CVE-2023-20569, also known as Return Form Procedure (RET) Speculation or Inception is available on the documentation portal. This vulnerability is reported by AMD as a sensitive information disclosure due to speculative side-channel attacks.

May 30

Cloud DNS is now available as an Early Access (EA) feature. You can publish DNS Zones of your domains and subdomains on public Name Servers using Cloud DNS. You may also programmatically manage your DNS Zones and Records via API.