# January 2026

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## What's new

### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Migration of Features into Regular Acronis Cyber Protect**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/storage-and-backup/backup-service/overview/advanced-packs)

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**January 22**

With the Acronis Cyber Protect release on January 22, 2026, Acronis has migrated and updated most of the features previously included in **Advanced Backup** within the regular **Acronis Cyber Protect**. This change makes most features part of your standard backup plans and do not require an additional fee for the Advanced Backup pack.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**NIC Multi-Queue Support Extended to de/fra/1; Now Available from the DCD**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/vdc-networking/nic-multi-queue)

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**January 22**

The NIC Multi-Queue feature has expanded to the `de/fra/1` region, making it available in all data centers. Previously available only through the API, you can now turn it on or manage it from the [<mark style="color:blue;">Data Center Designer (DCD)</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/set-up-ionos-cloud/data-center-designer) for **Dedicated Core Servers** and **vCPU Servers**. This distributes network traffic across multiple CPU cores for enhanced throughput and reduced latency.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**New n8n Community Nodes for IONOS Cloud**</mark>](https://github.com/ionos-cloud/n8n-nodes-ionos-cloud)

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**January 21**

The official IONOS Cloud nodes for n8n are now available, empowering developers and DevOps teams to automate infrastructure management through n8n's workflow automation platform. This release introduces five dedicated nodes for managing IONOS Cloud infrastructure, **Cloud DNS**, **CDN**, and **Certificate Manager**, as well as an **AI Model Hub** for integrating RAG capabilities and OpenAI-compatible endpoints directly into your n8n workflows.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Observability Products are Now Available in Two More Regions in the USA**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/observability/logging-service/api-how-tos#endpoints)

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**January 19**

The Observability products, the [<mark style="color:blue;">Logging Service</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/observability/logging-service), and the [<mark style="color:blue;">Monitoring Service</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/observability/monitoring-service) are now available in two new regions in the USA: **Las Vegas** `us/las` and **Newark** `us/ewr`.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**CDN General Availability**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/cdn)

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**January 15**

The [<mark style="color:blue;">Content Delivery Network (CDN)</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/cdn) is now in the **General Availability (GA)** phase, available to all IONOS Cloud users. Previously available on a request basis, CDN is now available directly through the [<mark style="color:blue;">Data Center Designer (DCD)</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/set-up-ionos-cloud/data-center-designer) and [<mark style="color:blue;">API</mark>](https://api.ionos.com/docs/cdn/v1/). This service delivers high-performance content with built-in security features, including a Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Layer 7 DDoS protection, utilizing edge locations across major global regions.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**PostgreSQL 16 Support**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/databases/postgresql/overview/upgrade-maintenance/postgresql16-upgrade-management)

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**January 12**

DBaaS supports **PostgreSQL 16**, which delivers significant performance enhancements, featuring faster query execution through improved parallelism, accelerated bulk data loading, and more efficient logical replication. Fine-grained role and privilege management, such as restricting `CREATEROLE` privileges, enhances security and ensures safer, more controlled role management.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Logging Usage Report**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/observability/logging-service/overview/logging-usage-reporter) and [<mark style="color:blue;">**Monitoring Usage Report**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/observability/monitoring-service/overview/metrics-usage-reporter)

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**January 12**

The Usage Reporter gathers two usage numbers for every logging pipeline and one usage number for all your monitoring pipelines you have and sends them to the Mimir data source in your Grafana Dashboard. These metrics will provide cost awareness, capacity planning, and automated alerting **without the need to open support tickets**.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Advisory on CVE-2025-14847**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/security-safeguards/vulnerability-register/2025/cve-2025-14847)

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**January 9**

Information on the security advisory for CVE-2025-14847, disclosed by MongoDB, is now available in the documentation portal. The advisory describes a vulnerability that involves improper validation of length fields in Zlib-compressed protocol headers, which could result in exposure of uninitialized heap memory to unauthenticated clients.
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### [<mark style="color:blue;">**NIC Multi-Queue Expands to Additional Data Centers**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/vdc-networking/nic-multi-queue)

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**January 8**

The NIC Multi-Queue feature is now available in all supported data centers, with the exception of `de/fra/1`. This expansion enhances network performance for [<mark style="color:blue;">Dedicated Core Servers</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/compute-services/compute-engine/dedicated-core) and [<mark style="color:blue;">vCPU Servers</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/compute-services/compute-engine/vcpu-server) by distributing traffic across multiple processing cores, thereby increasing throughput and reducing latency. The feature is disabled by default and must be [<mark style="color:blue;">activated</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/sections-test/guides/network-services/vdc-networking/nic-multi-queue/enable-nic-multi-queue) on each VM using the [<mark style="color:blue;">Cloud API v6</mark>](https://api.ionos.com/docs/cloud/v6/). This release extends availability beyond the initial deployment in Frankfurt `de/fra/2`, Germany.
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## Documentation updates

### [<mark style="color:blue;">**Set Up a CDN Distribution Using Terraform**</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/tutorials/network-services/cdn/set-up-cdn-distribution-terraform)

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**January 23**

New tutorial demonstrating automated deployment of IONOS Cloud CDN distribution with Terraform, covering DNS zone management, TLS certificate provisioning, and CDN distribution configuration.
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