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 20 Anthropic model deprecation — The following Anthropic model is deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 18 August 2026.
- Aug 19 Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model upgrade — Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model available on DigitalOcean Inference has been upgraded to Qwen3.8-Max.
- Aug 14 DeepSeek model availability — The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813.
- Aug 13 DOKS DRA support — DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) drivers for NVIDIA and AMD GPU node pools in public preview.
- Aug 10 MEM1 datacenter launch — We have launched the Memphis, Tennessee, USA (mem1) datacenter, which supports AMD Instinct MI355X Spot GPU Droplets and many other products.
- Aug 6 DeepSeek model availability — The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731.
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.