# August 2025

## What's new

### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Managed Kubernetes Version**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/containers/managed-kubernetes/overview/managed-k8s-schedule)

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**August 25**

Managed Kubernetes is releasing Kubernetes version 1.33. For more information about the schedule timeline, see [<mark style="color:blue;">Release Schedule</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/containers/managed-kubernetes/overview/managed-k8s-schedule).
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Additional Data Center is now operational in Frankfurt**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/general-information/service-catalog)

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**August 19**

We have commissioned an additional data center that extends the Frankfurt, Germany metro region, enhancing high availability, redundancy, and operational security through network connectivity with our existing `de/fra` location. The data center is designed to deliver scalability, robust data security, and high performance by leveraging state-of-the-art hardware components. For more information, refer to the [<mark style="color:blue;">Service Catalog</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/general-information/service-catalog).

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<summary><strong>Support for specific products and services</strong></summary>

You can now deploy the following products in the new data center using one of the following methods. Existing deployments in Frankfurt remain unaffected:<br>

* Selecting **Germany / Frankfurt am Main (de/fra/2)** from the drop-down list in the [<mark style="color:blue;">**DCD**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/set-up-ionos-cloud/get-started/log-in-dcd).<br>
* Specifying the location code as `de/fra/2` for [<mark style="color:blue;">**API-based requests**</mark>](https://api.ionos.com/docs/cloud/v6/).<br>

**Compute Services:**<br>

* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Dedicated Core Servers**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/compute-services/compute-engine/dedicated-core)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**vCPU Servers**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/compute-services/compute-engine/vcpu-server)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Cubes**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/compute-services/cubes)<br>

**Containers:**<br>

* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Managed Kubernetes**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/containers/managed-kubernetes)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Private Container Registry**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/containers/private-container-registry)<br>

**Data Analytics:**[ <mark style="color:blue;">**Event Streams for Apache Kafka**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/data-analytics/kafka)<br>

**Databases:**<br>

* [<mark style="color:blue;">**In-Memory DB**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/databases/in-memory-db)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**MariaDB**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/databases/mariadb)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**MongoDB**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/databases/mongodb)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**PostgreSQL**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/databases/postgresql)<br>

**Network Services:**<br>

* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Cross Connect**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/cross-connect)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**DDoS Protect**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/ddos-protect)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Flow Logs**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/flow-logs)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**IPv6 Configuration**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/vdc-networking/ip-address/ipv6)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Managed Application Load Balancer**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/application-load-balancer)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Managed NAT Gateway**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/nat-gateway)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Managed Network Load Balancer**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/network-load-balancer)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**VDC Networking**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/vdc-networking)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**VM Auto Scaling**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/vm-auto-scaling)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**VPN Gateway**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/vpn-gateway)<br>

**Observability:**<br>

* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Logging Service**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/observability/logging-service)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Monitoring Service**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/observability/monitoring-service)<br>

**Storage & Backup:**<br>

* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Block Storage**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/block-storage)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Images & Snapshots:**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/images-snapshots) You can upload only [<mark style="color:blue;">**Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)-based**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/images-snapshots/private-images/transition-private-image-uefi) images to the new Frankfurt region using the `ftps://ftp-fra-2.ionos.com` endpoint.<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**IONOS Object Storage**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/ionos-object-storage)<br>
* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Network File Storage**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/network-file-storage)<br>

**Security:**<br>

* [<mark style="color:blue;">**Network Security Groups**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/security/network-security-groups)<br>

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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**AI Model Hub supports GPT-OSS 120B in Beta Mode**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/ai/ai-model-hub/models/llms/openai-gpt-oss-120b)

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**August 12**

IONOS Cloud now supports the **GPT-OSS 120B model**, a high-performance, multilingual, reasoning model in the AI Model Hub. This advanced AI model excels in text generation, complex reasoning, and natural language processing across multiple domains, offering fast inference through an efficient expert routing architecture.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**AI Model Hub supports Mistral Small 24B**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/ai/ai-model-hub/models/llms/mistral-small-24b)

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**August 1**

IONOS Cloud supports Mistral Small 24B model, a high-performance multilingual and multimodal AI, in the AI Model Hub. This model processes both text and image inputs, delivers fast and reliable chat completions, and leverages advanced capabilities like streaming and tool calling, all optimized for a broad range of European languages.
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## Documentation updates

### [<mark style="color:blue;">**New Tutorial for installing Plesk on IONOS Cloud VMs**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/tutorials/compute-services/compute-engine/installing-plesk-on-ionos-cloud)

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**August 22**

A new tutorial for deploying [<mark style="color:blue;">Plesk</mark>](https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/) on IONOS Cloud Virtual Machines (VMs), using either a pre-configured Plesk QCOW image or the installer, is now available. This guide provides step-by-step instructions for setting up your IONOS Cloud instance for Plesk installation using one of these methods.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Updated Images & Snapshots Documentation Section**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/images-snapshots)

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**August 1**

The **Images & Snapshots** documentation has been relocated from the [<mark style="color:blue;">Block Storage</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/block-storage) product section and placed directly under the category **Storage & Backup**. This update aligns with the recent [<mark style="color:blue;">streamlined DCD interface</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/release-notes/previous-releases/april-2025#tadanew-simplified-and-streamlined-dcd-interface) and is intended to enhance documentation visibility and organization. No changes have been made to product functionality.
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