Provider news · August 2026
What the providers shipped
In August 2026, DigitalOcean unveiled new datacenters in Memphis, Tennessee, and Kansas City, Missouri, which predictably came with the usual GPU bling but also some more sensible updates like AMD Safe RET patching and deny firewall rules—finally giving developers some fine-grained control over traffic. For those whose compute needs reach for the stars, the global GPU capacity expansion from Linode looks like a well-timed move. On the serverless inference side, DigitalOcean trotted out DeepSeek V4 Flash, while Linode enhanced its monitoring tools. Sure, these aren't earth-shattering advancements, but for those paying attention, it's the small steps that often count the most.
DigitalOcean
- Aug 24 Updated GPU Droplet Images — Updated AI/ML Ready Droplet base images based on Ubuntu 24.04 with latest NVIDIA driver and CUDA.
- Aug 20 v5 Droplet Configurations Available — v5 Droplet configurations now available in additional datacenters, running on 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors.
- Aug 19 Prompt Caching on Inference Router — Inference Router now uses cache-aware routing and prompt caching for eligible Anthropic requests.
- Aug 18 Deprecated Models on Inference — Deprecated several open-source models from DigitalOcean Inference to avoid service disruption.
- Aug 14 DeepSeek V4 Pro Model Available — Introduced DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 model on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference and agents.
- Aug 13 Dynamic Resource Allocation for DOKS — DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Dynamic Resource Allocation drivers for AMD and NVIDIA GPU node pools.
- Aug 12 New Alibaba Model Available — Introduced Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference and agent development.
- Aug 10 Memphis, Tennessee Datacenter Launch — Launched Memphis, Tennessee (mem1) datacenter supporting AMD Instinct MI355X Spot GPU Droplets and various other products.
Linode
- Aug 20 LKE updates — Implemented updates for Linode Kubernetes Engine.
- Aug 19 Managed Databases for Valkey — Provided Managed Databases for Valkey across various regions.
- Aug 18 Managed Databases for Valkey in LA — Introduced Managed Databases for Valkey in Los Angeles.
- Aug 3 Monitoring updates — Added updates to the monitoring system.
- Aug 1 Global GPU Capacity Expansion — Expanded global GPU capacity for better availability.