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Provider news · May 2025

What the providers shipped

May 2025’s offerings in the VPS space had the usual mix of the groundbreaking and the overdue. DigitalOcean, ever eager to push the envelope, rolled out its Spaces CDN logs in public preview, enabling easier CDN log generation with Terraform, and threw in an App Platform feature to disable CDN cache for those who prefer their own. The company also announced that payment method won’t be required upfront, a minor but welcome change, and upgraded its App Platform with a liveness probe to keep apps running smoother. And, for the GPU enthusiasts, the RTX 4000/6000 Ada GPUs have landed in the mix, giving those with deep pockets another reason to guzzle their cloud compute dollars. Meanwhile, Linode improved its Managed Databases and added support for disk encryption—finally delivering on security features that were long due. UpCloud kept it simple with on-demand scaling for managed databases and bumped Kubernetes up to v1.31, ensuring it stays in the game for those running container orchestration workloads. None of these updates are revolutionary, but for developers with specific use cases, they bring some much-needed fine-tuning and new options.

DigitalOcean

  • May 30 Spaces CDN logs (public preview) — CDN log generation with Terraform config.
  • May 19 App Platform disable CDN cache — Apps can disable CDN cache to use your own CDN.
  • May 16 Managed DB default alert policies — New clusters get CPU/memory/disk alerts at 90% threshold.
  • May 13 Fedora 40 end of life — Reached end-of-life status.
  • May 13 Payment method not required for initial access — Card required only when creating resources.
  • May 12 App Platform liveness probe — Auto-restarts app on failed health check.
  • May 7 NVIDIA RTX 4000/6000 Ada GPUs — Available for GPU Droplets and DOKS.
  • May 7 MongoDB granular roles — Admin, Read/Write, Read-Only roles via API.
  • May 7 Valkey manual conversion from Caching — Manual Caching-to-Valkey conversion available.

Linode

  • May 21 Managed Databases enhancement — Feature/performance improvements to Managed Databases.
  • May 20 Object Storage quotas — Object Storage quota management introduced.
  • May 6 Object Storage quotas (Beta) — Beta feature enabling Object Storage quota management.
  • May 5 Linodes support disk encryption — Disk encryption added to Linode instances.
  • May 5 Cloud Firewall IP encapsulation protocol — IP encapsulation protocol support added to Cloud Firewall.
  • Linode Interfaces and Firewall Templates (BETA) — Beta release of Linode interface and firewall template tools (exact day not shown).

UpCloud

  • May 26 Additional disk space for managed databases — On-demand storage scaling added for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and OpenSearch.
  • May 9 Kubernetes v1.31 now available — Kubernetes 1.31 certified with upgrade capability via Hub or API.

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