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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Legal policies and security information, including our terms of service agreement and privacy policy.
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Incident history, maintenance updates, and real-time and historical data on system performance.
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Latest Updates
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.
17 April 2025
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We’ve made some major visual and technical improvements to the product docs site.
1 April 2025
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To comply with the Tax Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, we now charge a 12% VAT for customers in Uzbekistan. Learn more about Uzbekistan taxes.
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To comply with the Government of Nova Scotia’s 2024-25 budget, the HST rate for customers in Nova Scotia has decreased from 15% to 14% HST. Learn more about taxes in Canada.
For more information, see the full release notes.