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Latest Updates

Upcoming Changes

18 September 2024

  • We have released seven additional Premium CPU Droplet plans with 48 and 60 vCPUs.

    Click here to view the full list of new Droplet plans with Premium CPUs.
    Type Slug vCPUs RAM (GiB) Disk (GiB) Price
    General Purpose g-60vcpu-240gb-intel 60 240 900 $2269.00 per month
    General Purpose gd-60vcpu-240gb-intel 60 240 1,800 $2378.00 per month
    CPU Optimized c-60-intel 60 120 750 $1639.00 per month
    CPU Optimized c2-60vcpu-120gb-intel 60 120 1,500 $1834.00 per month
    Memory Optimized m-48vcpu-384gb-intel 48 384 1,200 $2376.00 per month
    Memory Optimized m3-48vcpu-384gb-intel 48 384 3,600 $2640.00 per month
    Storage Optimized so-48vcpu-384gb-intel 60 48 7,000 $3144.00 per month

    The new plans are available through the control panel and the API.

    • All plans are available in SGP1, LON1, NYC3, AMS3, FRA1, TOR1, SFO2, SFO3, and SYD1.
    • m-48vcpu-384gb-intel, m3-48vcpu-384gb-intel, and c-60-intel are additionally available in NYC3.
    • m-48vcpu-384gb-intel, m3-48vcpu-384gb-intel, c-60-intel, and c2-60vcpu-120gb-intel are additionally available in BLR1.
    • c-60-intel and c2-60vcpu-120gb-intel are additionally available in NYC1.

  • DigitalOcean Global Load Balancers are now in general availability. Global load balancers allow you to distribute traffic to backend resources in different regions for high availability and performance.

  • The ability to connect DOKS clusters to global load balancers via regional load balancers is now in beta.

17 September 2024

13 September 2024

  • SnapShooter can now back up and restore cluster-internal resources such as databases on DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters. The new feature automatically installs a backup agent into your cluster, allowing SnapShooter to back up a variety of database types running in DOKS.

    See How to Back Up Resources on DigitalOcean Kubernetes with SnapShooter for more details.

For more, see our full release notes.