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Platform Overview

Here are the latest improvements to the DigitalOcean platform:

August 27

August 26

  • Volume limits for verified accounts have been raised from 10 volumes per account/500GB of volume data per region to 100 volumes per account/16TB per region. Unverified accounts are still limited to 10 volumes/500GB. Learn more about account verification.

August 23

August 20

  • Managed Databases for MySQL and Redis have been released in limited availability in the NYC1, FRA1, and SFO2 datacenter regions. For more details, see the DigitalOcean Blog.

  • Downgrading to TLS 1.0 on Load Balancers is no longer supported. Downgrading to TLS 1.1 is unsupported as of September 15, 2019.

August 19

  • Began the incremental release of new block storage volume limits. By the end of the release, all verified accounts will be able to create up to 100 volumes or use a total of 16TB of volume data per region. Unverified accounts will be allowed 10 volumes or to use a total of 500GB per region.
  • You can now create a maximum of one snapshot of a volume every 10 minutes. See the snapshots overview for more details.
  • Floating IP Address rate limit information was added to the DigitalOcean API Documentation.

August 14

  • The default Ubuntu x64 base image has been updated from 18.04.1 to 18.04.3. For details about 18.04.3, see the Ubuntu release notes.

August 13

  • The credit card input form on the billing page in the control panel has been modified to simplify billing address entry.

August 5

  • Released version 1.6.0 of the DigitalOcean Terraform provider.

For more, see our full release notes.