# December 2024

## What's new

### [<mark style="color:blue;">**API Gateway is available in new regions**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/release-notes/2025/december-2025#api-gateway-end-of-life)

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**December 9**

API Gateway is now available in more regions including London, Paris, and Logroño. You can now create, manage, and deploy APIs in these regions using the API Gateway.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**New IONOS Object Storage in Lenexa, USA**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/ionos-object-storage/overview)

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**December 9**

We are excited to announce the launch of IONOS Object Storage in our US data center location, Lenexa. This highly scalable and durable storage solution is designed to support businesses with large amounts of unstructured data. With IONOS Object Storage, users can store, manage, and analyze vast amounts of data, from images and videos to logs and backups.

Located in Lenexa, this new offering ensures low latency and high performance for US-based users. The new endpoint is exposed as `us-central-1` and operates as a contract-owned IONOS Object Storage.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Embeddings models added to AI Model Hub**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/ai/ai-model-hub/how-tos/text-embeddings)

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**December 6**

The IONOS AI Model Hub now supports an OpenAI-compatible embeddings endpoint, and the embedding models **BGE Large EN v1.5**, **BGE m3**, and **Paraphrase Multilingual MPNet base v2**.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**IONOS's new data center in Worcester, United Kingdom**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/general-information/service-catalog)

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**December 2**

We are pleased to announce the expansion of IONOS Cloud products and services with the addition of a new deployment location in Worcester. This new facility marks IONOS's second data center in the United Kingdom, after London, enhancing the capability to support high availability and redundant configurations across geographical locations.

The Worcester data center is classified as a Tier IV facility, which includes comprehensive isolation of critical infrastructure systems to reduce the risk of disruptions significantly and guarantees our users the highest operational security and reliability level. For additional information, refer to the [<mark style="color:blue;">Service Catalog</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/general-information/service-catalog).

You now have the option to deploy the following products in the new data center via the [<mark style="color:blue;">DCD</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/set-up-ionos-cloud/get-started/log-in-dcd) or using the location code `gb/bhx` via the [<mark style="color:blue;">API</mark>](https://api.ionos.com/docs/cloud/v6/):

* **Compute Services:**
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">Dedicated Core Servers</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/compute-services/compute-engine/dedicated-core)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">vCPU Servers</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/compute-services/compute-engine/vcpu-server)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">Cubes</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/compute-services/cubes)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">VM Auto Scaling</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/vm-auto-scaling)
* **Containers:** [<mark style="color:blue;">Managed Kubernetes</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/containers/managed-kubernetes)
* **Databases:**
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">In-Memory DB</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/databases/in-memory-db)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">MariaDB</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/databases/mariadb)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">MongoDB</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/databases/mongodb)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">PostgreSQL</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/databases/postgresql)
* **Network Services:**
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">Certificate Manager</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/security/certificate-manager)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">Cloud DNS</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/cloud-dns)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">Cross Connect</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/cross-connect)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">DDoS Protect</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/ddos-protect)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">Flow Logs</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/flow-logs)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">IPv6 Configuration</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/vdc-networking/ip-address/ipv6)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">Managed Application Load Balancer</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/application-load-balancer)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">Managed NAT Gateway</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/nat-gateway)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">Managed Network Load Balancer</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/network-load-balancer)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">VDC Networking</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/vdc-networking)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">VPN Gateway</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/vpn-gateway)
* **Observability:** [<mark style="color:blue;">Activity Logs</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/observability/activity-logs)
* **Storage & Backup:** [<mark style="color:blue;">Block Storage</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/block-storage)

The following products do not have a distinct deployment in Worcester, but you can still use their centrally located services:

* **AI:** [<mark style="color:blue;">AI Model Hub</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/ai/ai-model-hub)
* **Storage & Backup:**
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">Backup Service</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/backup-service)
  * [<mark style="color:blue;">IONOS Object Storage</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/ionos-object-storage)
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