Provider news · September 2026
What the providers shipped
DigitalOcean's new DOKS Isolated Worker Nodes bring an underappreciated tweak: they run without public IPv4 addresses, a nod to security-conscious developers who've been crying out for it for ages. Meanwhile, Linode continues its slow crawl with another IPv4 reserved address, and Vultr keeps rolling out GPU plans that only look impressive until you check the $5 price tag and realize it's more of a tech collector's item than a viable option. Oh, and UpCloud added a new region in Stavanger, but let's be real: Kubernetes 1.34 is great, but when's the last time anyone outside a select few really cared about regional compute storage?
DigitalOcean
- Sep 8 Model Deprecations — The following models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 8 September 2026.
- Sep 4 OpenAI Model Availability — The following OpenAI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference.
- Sep 1 DOKS Isolated Worker Nodes — DigitalOcean Kubernetes now supports Isolated Worker Nodes in public preview.