Provider news · August 2023

What the providers shipped

In August 2023, DigitalOcean started making you explicitly use read-write tokens for all Functions API calls, because apparently they're still figuring out who's using their services. Meanwhile, they introduced a 429 Retry-After header for rate-limit responses, which is as subtle as a sledgehammer in a quiet library. UpCloud predictably updated their Terms of Service, though nobody really reads those anyway, so the real headline should be that users will need to review this change come September. It's all very meta and just a little bit patronizing, but hey, at least no one's throwing GPU-laden plans onto the market (for now).