Provider news · August 2025
What the providers shipped
DigitalOcean unveiled VPC NAT Gateways (public preview) for easier outbound internet access, and strutted in those eye-wateringly expensive H200 GPU Droplets that will have developers either drooling or facepalming. Meanwhile, Vultr cranked out more updates than a tech junkie at Black Friday: VKE Node Pools now handle user data, new account logs track every login and console interaction, and there’s a Ubuntu 25.04 fix (finally) for their Bare Metal users. Adding a dash of the flashy, Vultr also rolled out a Global Load Balancer with an eye-watering redesign, and now offers High Performance Storage in Seattle and Atlanta, not to mention those obscenely priced HGX B200/H100 GPU plans that scream overkill at $5 per hour. The Open Cluster Manager lets you effortlessly spin up AI workloads on their GPU clusters, proving they’re all about the flash and none of the substance.
DigitalOcean
- Aug 28 VPC NAT Gateways (public preview) — Centralized outbound internet access in preview.
- Aug 8 NVIDIA H200 GPU Droplets — Available in 1- and 8-GPU configurations.
Vultr
- VKE Node Pools Now Support User Data — Terraform provider supports user_data per VKE node pool for launch customization.
- Account Logs Now Available — Logs record user actions: logins, Console interactions, and API requests.
- Ubuntu 25.04 BM Bug Fixes — Improved Ubuntu 25.04 support across Bare Metal hardware for smoother deployment.
- Global Load Balancer Experience Improvements — Redesigned interface for routing traffic to the nearest server worldwide.
- High Performance Storage in Seattle and Atlanta — Block, Object, and Filesystem storage placed near GPU workloads in Seattle and Atlanta.
- NVIDIA HGX B200 or H100 GPU Plans Available — Cloud GPU plans with 8x HGX B200/H100 in passthrough plus full GPU fabric networking.
- Vultr Open Cluster Manager — One-click Marketplace app to run AI workloads on Vultr Cloud GPU clusters.