Release Notes
Release notes track incremental improvements and major releases for the DigitalOcean cloud platform.
DigitalOcean Platform Overview
Validated on 3 May 2024 • Last edited on 17 Apr 2025
Information about the DigitalOcean platform, like billing details, release notes, product availability by datacenter, support plans, account details, and SLAs.
Product Information
Regional Availability
Availability of DigitalOcean products by datacenter and region.
Product Lifecycle Stages
Product lifecycle stages define how we stage, release, and retire product functionality. Our product lifecycles stages are private preview, public preview, and general availability (GA).
Product Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
DigitalOcean’s product Service Level Agreements.
DDoS Protection
DigitalOcean DDoS Protection provides free, always-on protection from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for applicable DigitalOcean resources.
DigitalOcean IP Ranges (CSV File)
We publish our IP ranges as a CSV (comma-separated value) file, which is updated automatically.
Platform Information
Accounts
Manage your team membership and your name, sign-in method, and email subscriptions with your personal DigitalOcean account.
DigitalOcean Teams
Teams are how you manage your billing and infrastructure on DigitalOcean. You can work by yourself by remaining the only person on your team or collaborate by adding more people to teams you own.
Billing
Information on billing, including invoices, billing alerts, payment methods, late payments, and taxes.
Trust Platform
Certification and transparency reports about our SOC 2 Type II certification, data center compliance, GDPR, Privacy Shield, and more.
Security at DigitalOcean
Our six security pillars guide how we secure our products and platform.
Legal Resources
Legal policies and security information, including our terms of service agreement and privacy policy.
Need Help?
Services Status
Incident history, maintenance updates, and real-time and historical data on system performance.
Support Home
Looking for technical support with your DigitalOcean account or infrastructure? Start here.
Support Plans
We provide free, ticket-based support to all customers and offer paid support plans with quicker response times, live chat, and more.
Contact Sales
For personalized pricing, guidance, or more information, contact our sales team.
Intigriti DigitalOcean Hub
Vulnerability disclosure and private bug bounty program in partnership with Intigriti.
Report Abuse
Contact our SOC team to report abuse on a site hosted by DigitalOcean.
More Resources
DigitalOcean Community
Thousands of tutorials, videos, and answers to questions on software development, server administration, installing and configuring open source tools, and other technical topics.
Developer Tools
Tools, apps, wrappers, and API integrations created by DigitalOcean and the developer community.
Latest Updates
13 May 2025
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When you sign up for DigitalOcean, you no longer need to add a payment method to your default team before accessing the control panel. You do need to add a payment method to create resources, invite team members, and create additional teams.
1 May 2025
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To comply with the South African Parliament’s 2025 fiscal policies, the VAT rate for customers in South Africa has increased from 15% to 15.5%. Learn more about taxes in South Africa.
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To comply with the tax code of Republic of Moldova, we now charge a 20% VAT for customers in Moldova. Learn more about Moldova taxes.
17 April 2025
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We’ve made some major visual and technical improvements to the product docs site.
For more information, see the full release notes.