Provider news · April 2025
What the providers shipped
In April 2025, DigitalOcean finally finished rolling out its long-overdue Cluster autoscaler GA (finally), but their App Platform now integrates Managed Valkey databases, which is mildly useful if you’re not already knee-deep in Redis. Meanwhile, their Partner Network Connect is now generally available, making Kubernetes cluster traffic a breeze (or so they claim). On the other hand, Linode’s new Accelerated plans look like they’re trying a bit too hard to compete with the beefy GPU plans of yore, which may not exactly be a boon for the average developer. UpCloud keeps cranking on its usual hardware spiel, introducing an object storage file manager and beefing up their Frankfurt & Warsaw regions with shiny new AMD EPYC Turin processors for a sweet 30-40% performance gain—if you’re not already running custom builds, this might not matter much to you.
DigitalOcean
- Apr 30 DOKS cluster autoscaler GA — Cluster autoscaler generally available.
- Apr 28 App Platform + Managed Valkey — Attach Valkey databases to App Platform apps.
- Apr 25 Partner Network Connect to VPC-native DOKS — Traffic to/from VPC-native Kubernetes clusters.
- Apr 21 App Platform subdomain routing — Subdomain routing; disable starter domain.
- Apr 3 API breaking-change approach revised — Tokens retain existing functionality; prior breaking change reversed.
- Apr 1 Partner Network Connect GA — Dedicated network interconnect generally available.
Linode
- Apr 3 New Accelerated plans — Introduction of Accelerated compute plan offerings.
UpCloud
- Apr 28 Object Storage file manager — Control panel interface to browse, upload, organize, and manage bucket files.
- Apr 23 New hardware expands to Frankfurt & Warsaw — AMD EPYC Turin processors deployed in more data centers with 30-40% performance gain.
- Apr 3 New hardware with AMD EPYC Turin processors — Latest-gen servers with enhanced architecture and faster DDR5 memory launched.