# December 2023

## What's new

### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 Images**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/images-snapshots/public-images/rhel-images)

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**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.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 Images**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/images-snapshots/public-images/rhel-images)

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**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.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Private Node Pools**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/containers/managed-kubernetes/overview/private_node_pools)

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**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.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Enhanced Features Released for Backup Service**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/backup-service/overview/advanced-packs)

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**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.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Renamed Managed Backup to Backup Service**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/backup-service)

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**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 [<mark style="color:blue;">FAQ</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/backup-service/backup-service-faqs).
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Revamped IONOS Object Storage DCD Interface**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/ionos-object-storage)

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**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.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**New Feature Set in IONOS Object Storage**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/ionos-object-storage/overview/features-benefits)

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**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 [<mark style="color:blue;">Bucket Policy</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/ionos-object-storage/settings/bucket-policy), overarching access policies for a bucket can be set to control data access and usage. With [<mark style="color:blue;">Object Lock</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/ionos-object-storage/settings/object-lock), data can be secured by implementing retention policies or legal holds; and with object [<mark style="color:blue;">versions and metadata</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/ionos-object-storage/concepts/objects-folders#properties-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.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Container Registry Vulnerability Scanning General Availability**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/containers/private-container-registry/dcd-how-tos/enable-vulnerability-scanning)

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**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 [<mark style="color:blue;">View Vulnerability Scan Results</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/containers/private-container-registry/dcd-how-tos/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 [<mark style="color:blue;">Enable Vulnerability Scanning</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/containers/private-container-registry/dcd-how-tos/enable-vulnerability-scanning).
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**New Container Registry Web Console**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/containers/private-container-registry/dcd-how-tos)

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**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 [<mark style="color:blue;">DCD How-Tos</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/containers/private-container-registry/dcd-how-tos).
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Images**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/images-snapshots/public-images/rhel-images)

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**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.
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## Documentation updates

### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Reorganized subtopics in Block Storage**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/block-storage)

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**December 18**

The subtopics in the **Block Storage** section have been updated. It now contains a new **Images & Snapshots** section with the appropriate subtopics—[<mark style="color:blue;">IONOS Public Images</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/images-snapshots/public-images) and [<mark style="color:blue;">Private Images</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/images-snapshots/private-images). For more information, see [<mark style="color:blue;">Images & Snapshots</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/images-snapshots).
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Reorganized subtopics in Block Storage**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/block-storage)

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**December 4**

The subtopics in the **Block Storage** section have been updated. It now contains a new **Images & Snapshots** section with the appropriate subtopics—[<mark style="color:blue;">**Public Images**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/images-snapshots/public-images) and [<mark style="color:blue;">**Private Images**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/images-snapshots/private-images). For more information, see [<mark style="color:blue;">Images & Snapshots</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/images-snapshots).
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