Droplets Release Notes

May 2025

7 May

• NVIDIA RTX 4000 and RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs are now available for GPU Droplets via the control panel and via the API using slugs gpu-4000adax1-20gb and gpu-6000adax1-48gb respectively. Learn more about GPU Droplet plans.

March 2025

27 March

• NVIDIA L40S GPUs are now available for GPU Droplets via the control panel and via the API using the slug gpu-l40sx1-48gb. Learn more about GPU Droplet plans.

6 March

• SMTP ports 465 and 587 are now blocked on Droplets.

February 2025

20 February

• Droplet autoscale pools now support shared CPU Basic Droplets. Previously, they only supported dedicated CPU Droplet plans.

January 2025

16 January

• When autoscale pools scale down, they now issue a shutdown event and wait 60 seconds before issuing a destroy event. You can use this time to perform cleanup operations, gracefully close connections, or other actions. Learn more about autoscale pool scaling.

December 2024

18 December

• Droplet autoscale pools are now available. Autoscale pools enable automatic horizontal autoscaling based on resource utilization.

16 December

• Fedora 39 reached end of life on 26 November 2024. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

13 December

• Premium Intel CPUs for Basic Droplets are now available in SFO2.

October 2024

18 October

• Basic Droplet plans with a 1:4 vCPU:RAM ratio are now available in NYC1, SGP1, and LON1. Learn more about Droplet availability.

10 October

• A Ubuntu 24.10 (ubuntu-24-10-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

6 October

• A Fedora 41 (fedora-41-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

1 October

• GPU Droplets are now in general availability. GPU Droplets have NVIDIA H100 GPUs, and we provide an AI/ML-ready base image with NVIDIA drivers and software preinstalled to help you get started.

September 2024

18 September

• 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	48	384	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.

August 2024

30 August

• GPU worker nodes are now available in early availability for select DOKS customers. For more information, see GPU Worker Nodes.

12 August

• We have increased the volume attach limit for Droplets from 7 to 15. The limit for DOKS nodes is still 7, but we’re working to increase this as well.

1 August

• Premium CPUs for CPU-Optimized Droplets are now available in LON1 and SGP1.

• Premium CPUs for General Purpose Droplets are now available in LON1 and SGP1.

• Premium CPUs for Memory-Optimized Droplets are now available in AMS3, LON1, SFO3, and SGP1.

• Premium CPUs for Storage-Optimized Droplets are now available in AMS3, LON1, SFO3, and SGP1.

July 2024

11 July

• Ubuntu 23.10 reached end of life on 11 July 2024. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

8 July

• Debian 10 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

4 July

• Centos 7 reached end of life on 4 July 2024. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

June 2024

27 June

• Fedora 40 (fedora-40-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

6 June

• Centos Stream 8 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

May 2024

30 May

• We have released an updated Ubuntu 24.04 image that fixes a problem with journald. If you created a Ubuntu 24.04 Droplets on or before 30 May 2024, you can run sudo systemctl restart systemd-journald once as a workaround for the patch.

14 May

• Fedora 38 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

April 2024

30 April

• Premium CPUs are now available for Storage-Optimized Droplets.

  Click here to view the full list of new Storage-Optimized Droplet plans with Premium CPUs.

  Slug	vCPUs	RAM (GB)	Disk (GB)	Transfer (TB)	Price
  so-2vcpu-16gb-intel	2	16	300	4	$131.00 per month
  so1_5-2vcpu-16gb-intel	2	16	450	4	$139.00 per month
  so-4vcpu-32gb-intel	4	32	600	6	$262.00 per month
  so1_5-4vcpu-32gb-intel	4	32	900	6	$278.00 per month
  so-8vcpu-64gb-intel	8	64	1200	7	$524.00 per month
  so1_5-8vcpu-64gb-intel	8	64	1800	7	$556.00 per month
  so-16vcpu-128gb-intel	16	128	2400	8	$1048.00 per month
  so1_5-16vcpu-128gb-intel	16	128	3600	8	$1112.00 per month
  so-24vcpu-192gb-intel	24	192	3600	9	$1572.00 per month
  so1_5-24vcpu-192gb-intel	24	192	5400	9	$1668.00 per month
  so-32vcpu-256gb-intel	32	256	4800	10	$2096.00 per month
  so1_5-32vcpu-256gb-intel	32	256	7200	10	$2224.00 per month

  The new plans are available through the control panel and the API in NYC1, NYC3, SFO2, TOR1, FRA1, BLR1, and SYD1.

25 April

• The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (ubuntu-24-04-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

23 April

• Premium CPUs are now available for Memory-Optimized Droplets.

  Click here to view the full list of new Memory-Optimized Droplet plans with Premium CPUs.

  Slug	vCPUs	RAM (GB)	Disk (GB)	Transfer (TB)	Price
  m-2vcpu-16gb-intel	2	16	50	4	$99.00 per month
  m3-2vcpu-16gb-intel	2	16	150	4	$110.00 per month
  m-4vcpu-32gb-intel	4	32	100	6	$198.00 per month
  m3-4vcpu-32gb-intel	4	32	300	6	$220.00 per month
  m-8vcpu-64gb-intel	8	64	200	7	$396.00 per month
  m3-8vcpu-64gb-intel	8	64	600	7	$440.00 per month
  m-16vcpu-128gb-intel	16	128	400	8	$792.00 per month
  m3-16vcpu-128gb-intel	16	128	1200	8	$880.00 per month
  m-24vcpu-192gb-intel	24	192	600	9	$1188.00 per month
  m3-24vcpu-192gb-intel	24	192	1800	9	$1320.00 per month
  m-32vcpu-256gb-intel	32	256	800	10	$1584.00 per month
  m3-32vcpu-256gb-intel	32	256	2400	10	$1760.00 per month

  The new plans are available through the control panel and the API in NYC1, NYC3, SFO2, TOR1, FRA1, BLR1, and SYD1.

January 2024

20 January

• Ubuntu 23.04 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

December 2023

5 December

• Fedora 37 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

November 2023

27 November

• The Fedora 39 (fedora-39-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

October 2023

25 October

• We have disabled password-based authentication for newly created Alma 9 Droplets due to an incompatibility between Alma 9’s password authentication mechanism and DigitalOcean’s provisioning system.

  SSH-based login remains available. Previously created Alma 9 Droplets are not affected.

• We have disabled password-based authentication for newly created Rocky 8 Droplets due to an incompatibility between Rocky 8’s password authentication mechanism and DigitalOcean’s provisioning system.

  SSH-based login remains available. Previously created Rocky 8 Droplets are not be affected.

• The Ubuntu 23.10 (ubuntu-23-10-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

17 October

• Backups now remain available for four weeks even if the associated Droplet is deleted. Previously, deleting a Droplet would also delete its backups.

  You can view your backups and their expiration dates in the control panel and convert them to snapshots.

11 October

• Premium CPUs for General Purpose Droplets are now available in AMS3 and SFO3.

September 2023

27 September

• Premium CPUs are now available for General Purpose Droplets.

  Click here to view the full list of new General Purpose Droplet plans with Premium CPUs.

  Slug	vCPUs	RAM (GB)	Disk (GB)	Transfer (TB)	Price
  g-2vcpu-8gb-intel	2	8	25	4	$76.00 per month
  gd-2vcpu-8gb-intel	2	8	50	4	$79.00 per month
  g-4vcpu-16gb-intel	4	16	50	5	$151.00 per month
  gd-4vcpu-16gb-intel	4	16	100	5	$158.00 per month
  g-8vcpu-32gb-intel	8	32	100	6	$302.00 per month
  gd-8vcpu-32gb-intel	8	32	200	6	$317.00 per month
  g-16vcpu-64gb-intel	16	64	200	7	$605.00 per month
  gd-16vcpu-64gb-intel	16	64	400	7	$634.00 per month
  g-32vcpu-128gb-intel	32	128	400	8	$1210.00 per month
  gd-32vcpu-128gb-intel	32	128	800	8	$1268.00 per month
  g-48vcpu-192gb-intel	48	192	600	9	$1814.00 per month
  gd-48vcpu-192gb-intel	48	192	1200	9	$1901.00 per month

  The new plans are available through the control panel and the API in NYC1, NYC3, SFO2, TOR1, FRA1, BLR1, and SYD1.

25 September

• The Ubuntu 23.04 (ubuntu-23-04-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

August 2023

2 August

• We have released new plans for Basic Droplets with Premium CPUs with different vCPU:RAM ratios.

  The new plans are available through the control panel and the API for all data centers. However, plans with a 1:4 vCPU:RAM ratio (like the 2 vCPU and 8 GB RAM plan) are not yet available in LON1, SGP1, and NYC1.

  Click here to view the full list of new plans.

  Slug	vCPUs	RAM (GB)	Disk (GB)	Transfer (TB)	Price
  s-2vcpu-8gb-amd	2	8	100	5	$42.00 per month
  s-4vcpu-16gb-amd	4	16	200	8	$84.00 per month
  s-8vcpu-32gb-amd	8	32	400	10	$168.00 per month
  s-1vcpu-1gb-35gb-intel	1	1	35	1	$8.00 per month
  s-1vcpu-2gb-70gb-intel	1	2	70	2	$16.00 per month
  s-2vcpu-2gb-90gb-intel	2	2	90	3	$24.00 per month
  s-2vcpu-4gb-120gb-intel	2	4	120	4	$32.00 per month
  s-2vcpu-8gb-160gb-intel	2	8	160	5	$48.00 per month
  s-4vcpu-8gb-240gb-intel	4	8	240	6	$64.00 per month
  s-4vcpu-16gb-320gb-intel	4	16	320	8	$96.00 per month
  s-8vcpu-16gb-480gb-intel	8	16	480	9	$128.00 per month
  s-8vcpu-32gb-640gb-intel	8	32	640	10	$192.00 per month

  The previous plans for Basic Droplets with Premium CPUs are no longer available in the control panel, but remain available through the API and CLI with the same slugs.

  Click here to view the full list of deprecated plans.

  Slug	vCPUs	RAM (GB)	Disk (GB)	Transfer (TB)	Price
  s-1vcpu-1gb-intel	1	1	25	1	$7.00 per month
  s-1vcpu-2gb-intel	1	2	50	2	$14.00 per month
  s-2vcpu-2gb-intel	1	2	60	3	$21.00 per month
  s-2vcpu-4gb-intel	1	4	80	4	$28.00 per month
  s-4vcpu-8gb-intel	1	8	160	6	$56.00 per month
  s-8vcpu-16gb-intel	1	16	320	9	$112.00 per month

July 2023

20 July

• The Ubuntu 22.10 distribution has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

17 July

• Ubuntu 18.04 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

6 July

• Fedora 36 reached end of life on 18 May 2023. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

1 July

• We no longer bill for outbound data transfer that we determine is dropped by a DigitalOcean firewall rule. Learn more about bandwidth billing.

June 2023

27 June

• The Debian 12 (debian-12-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

• Rocky 8.4 and 8.5 have reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, these images are available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove them from our platform.

May 2023

16 May

• Premium Intel CPUs are now available for CPU-Optimized Droplets in TOR1.

4 May

• The Fedora 38 (fedora-38-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

April 2023

18 April

• Premium Intel CPUs are now available for CPU-Optimized Droplets in BLR1.

March 2023

27 March

• The largest CPU-Optimized Droplet plan is now available in BLR1.

24 March

• We have extended the promotional period for CPU-Optimized Droplets with Premium Intel CPUs (no billing for outbound data transfer at speeds faster than 2 Gbps) from 30 April 2023 to 30 June 2023. Learn more about bandwidth billing.

23 March

• Premium Intel CPUs are now available for CPU-Optimized Droplets in SFO2.

February 2023

22 February

• Premium Intel CPUs are now available for CPU-Optimized Droplets. You can create CPU-Optimized Droplets with Premium Intel CPUs in NYC1, NYC3, FRA1, AMS3, SFO3, and SYD1.

  Compared to CPU-Optimized Droplets with Regular Intel CPUs, CPU-Optimized Droplets with Premium Intel CPUs have the latest hardware and five times more network throughput.

  Additionally, for a promotional period from 1 February through 30 April 2023, we will not bill for outbound data transfer at speeds faster than 2 Gbps for CPU-Optimized Droplets with Premium Intel CPUs. Learn more about bandwidth billing.

  You can use this plan for both standalone Droplets and Kubernetes nodes. You can also resize your existing Droplets to this node plan.

January 2023

5 January

• Fedora 35 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

December 2022

15 December

• RancherOS is now fully deprecated on our platform and is no longer available in the control panel or API.

November 2022

16 November

• The Fedora 37 (fedora-37-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

October 2022

27 October

• AlmaLinux OS versions 8.6 and 9 base images are now available in the control panel and via the API.

24 October

• The Ubuntu 22.10 (ubuntu-22-10-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

17 October

• Premium AMD Droplets now also include servers powered by third generation AMD EPYC processors.

September 2022

20 September

• When you create a Droplet using the API (POST /v2/droplets), you can now specify a region (like NYC) instead of a specific datacenter (like NYC3). The API then creates your Droplet in any available datacenter within your specified region. For example, if you want to create a Droplet in San Francisco, you can use the region sfo to guarantee that the Droplet will be in SFO1, SFO2, or SFO3. Additionally, you can omit the region entirely (or set it to an empty string) to create a Droplet in any available region.

9 September

• The Rocky 9 (rockylinux-9-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

August 2022

18 August

• A new CPU-Optimized Droplet plan with more computing power is now available. This plan features 48 vCPUs (up from the previous maximum of 32) and 96 GB of memory (up from the previous maximum of 64).

  This large CPU-Optimized Droplet plan is available where CPU-Optimized Droplets are already available, except for BLR1 and SFO2.

  You can use this plan for both standalone Droplets and Kubernetes nodes. You can also resize your existing Droplets to this node plan.

10 August

• Debian 9 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Debian 9 image from our platform in 30 days.

• Ubuntu 21.10 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

8 August

• The Rocky 8.6 (rockylinux-8-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

July 2022

12 July

• The DigitalOcean API now supports listing Droplets by name by using the name query parameter, as in GET /v2/droplets?name="your_droplet_name". Learn more in the API documentation.

7 July

• Fedora 34 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

1 July

• The following pricing changes are now in effect:

  • A new $4 Droplet with 512MB of memory, 10GB of storage, 1 vCPU, and 500GB of outbound data transfer is now available in NYC1, FRA1, SFO3, SGP1, and AMS3. The slug is s-1vcpu-512mb-10gb.

  • We have simplified pricing for DigitalOcean Kubernetes and some managed databases for better accuracy and predictibility.

  • The prices of Droplets, Snapshots, Load Balancers, Reserved IPs, and Custom Images have increased.

  There is no change to pricing for Spaces, backups, volumes, DigitalOcean Container Registry, or App Platform. There are also no changes to inbound data transfer or bandwidth pricing.

  This is our first major price change in 10 years, and we believe the new model better fits our understanding of our customers and the expanded breadth of our offerings. For a more detailed breakdown of the changes, see our blog post on our new pricing.

June 2022

27 June

• To improve security, DigitalOcean no longer accepts TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 connections. This includes connections to www.digitalocean.com, cloud.digitalocean.com, and api.digitalocean.com.

22 June

• SMTP (port 25) is now blocked for all new accounts. Learn more about SMTP blocking.

6 June

• When creating a Droplet via the API, we now release the Droplet’s IP address when it is in the active state, instead of the new state.

1 June

• We have deprecated the FreeBSD image on our platform. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is now only available via the API. We will remove the Fedora 34 image from our platform in 30 days.

April 2022

25 April

• The Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (ubuntu-22-04-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

March 2022

29 March

• Basic Droplets can now have Regular AMD CPUs. Additionally, you can now change between Premium AMD and Premium Intel CPUs when resizing Droplets. Learn more about resizing Droplets and how to choose a Droplet plan.

22 March

• The Centos Stream 9 (centos-stream-9-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

January 2022

18 January

• FreeBSD 11.4 (zfs and ufs), Fedora 33, CentOS 8, and Ubuntu 21.04 have reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, these images are available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove them from our platform.

December 2021

8 December

• The Rocky Linux 8.5 x64 (rockylinux-8-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

November 2021

15 November

• The Droplet Console now supports running the SSH daemon, sshd, on a custom port. Previously, it required sshd to listen on port 22.

9 November

• The Fedora 35 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

• General Purpose Droplets are now available in BLR1.

October 2021

25 October

• Ubuntu 20.10 has reached its end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

• The Ubuntu 21.10 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

September 2021

27 September

• The Debian 11.0 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

August 2021

9 August

• Released v1.63.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release includes a number of new features:

  • The database firewall sub-commands now support apps as trusted sources
  • New monitoring alert sub-commands for creating and managing alert policies
  • The --droplet-agent flag was added to the compute droplet create sub-command to optionally disable installing the agent for the Droplet web console

• The Droplet Console is now in General Availability.

2 August

• CentOS Linux is reaching end of life; CentOS Linux 8 reaches EOL at the end of 2021 and there will be no CentOS Linux 9. As potential replacements, we have released two new Linux distributions for Droplets: CentOS Stream 8 (centos-stream-8-x64) and Rocky Linux 8.4 x64 (rockylinux-8-x64).

June 2021

10 June

• The new Droplet Console is now in private beta. The Droplet Console gives you one-click SSH access to your Droplet from within a web browser, so you don’t need a password or SSH keys to connect.

May 2021

26 May

• Fedora 32 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

• Ubuntu 16.04 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

17 May

• Storage-Optimized Droplets are now available in SGP1.

April 2021

27 April

• Premium AMD Droplets are now available in NYC1, SGP1, AMS3, BLR1, LON1, and TOR1. You can view the availability of all of our products by datacenter on the regional availability page.

• The Fedora 34 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

26 April

• The Ubuntu 21.04 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

9 April

• With the completion of datacenter work, we have re-enabled resizing between regular and premium Intel Droplets in NYC3 and SGP1.

March 2021

9 March

• Storage Optimized Droplets are now available in TOR1 and BLR1.

February 2021

22 February

• Our Basic Droplet plans now include Premium Intel and AMD Droplets, which have faster Intel and AMD CPUs and NVMe SSDs. Premium Intel plans are available in all regions, and Premium AMD plans are available in NYC3, SFO3, and FRA1.

  All users can create Premium Droplets, resize from Regular Intel Droplets to Premium Intel Droplets, and create Premium Droplets as worker nodes in Kubernetes clusters. Resizing between Regular Intel Droplets to Premium Intel Droplets is disabled in NYC3 and SGP1 until the end of March 2021.

11 February

• FreeBSD 12.1 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

December 2020

7 December

• CentOS 6 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

1 December

• We recently replaced Standard Droplet plans with Basic Droplet plans. Today, we have deprecated Standard Droplet plans from the API for new users. Existing customers will retain access to these plans.

  Click here to view the complete list of deprecated plans.

  Class	Slug	vCPUs	RAM	Disk	Transfer	Monthly Price
  Standard	512mb	1	512 MB	20 GB	1 TB	$5
  Standard	1gb	1	1 GB	30 GB	2 TB	$10
  Standard	2gb	2	2 GB	40 GB	3 TB	$20
  Standard	4gb	2	3 GB	60 GB	4 TB	$40
  Standard	8gb	4	4 GB	80 GB	5 TB	$80
  Standard	16gb	8	16 GB	160 GB	6 TB	$160
  Standard	32gb	12	32 GB	320 GB	7 TB	$320
  Standard	48gb	16	48 GB	480 GB	8 TB	$480
  Standard	64gb	20	64 GB	640 GB	9 TB	$640
  Standard	96gb	24	96 GB	960 GB	10 TB	$960
  Standard	s-1vcpu-3gb	1	3 GB	60 GB	3 TB	$15
  Standard	s-3vcpu-1gb	3	1 GB	60 GB	3 TB	$15
  Standard	s-6vcpu-16gb	6	16 GB	320 GB	6 TB	$80
  Standard	s-8vcpu-32gb	8	32 GB	640 GB	7 TB	$160
  Standard	s-12vcpu-48gb	12	48 GB	960 GB	8 TB	$240
  Standard	s-16vcpu-64gb	16	16 GB	1280 GB	9 TB	$320
  Standard	s-20vcpu-96gb	20	20 GB	1920 GB	10 TB	$480
  Standard	s-24vcpu-128gb	24	24 GB	2560 GB	11 TB	$640
  Standard	s-32vcpu-192gb	32	32 GB	3840 GB	12 TB	$960
  High Memory	m-16gb	2	16 GB	60 GB	5 TB	$75
  High Memory	m-32gb	4	32 GB	90 GB	5 TB	$150
  High Memory	m-64gb	8	64 GB	200 GB	5 TB	$300
  High Memory	m-128gb	16	128 GB	340 GB	5 TB	$600
  High Memory	m-224gb	32	224 GB	500 GB	5 TB	$1100

  You can view Droplet plans, the resources they provide, and the size slug used to identify them programmatically by querying the /v2/sizes endpoint.

November 2020

24 November

• Fedora 31 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

18 November

• Droplet-related error messages now display on the Droplet’s History page in the control panel.

10 November

• We have reduced the prices of Memory-Optimized Droplets by about 11%. Existing Memory-Optimized Droplets will be charged at the lowered price from the month of November on, reflected in the December invoice.

• We have released Storage-Optimized Droplet plans. Storage-Optimized Droplets have NVMe SSD storage and are best for extra-large databases, caches, and analytics workloads.

  All users can now create Storage-Optimized Droplets in AMS3, FRA1, LON1, NYC1, and SFO3 using the control panel, API, or CLI. The slugs for the new plans are so-2vcpu-16gb, so-4vcpu-32gb, so-16vcpu-64gb, so-24vcpu-128gb, and so-32vcpu-256gb.

4 November

• FreeBSD 12.2 UFS and ZFS base images are now available in the control panel and via the API. We have replaced the image slug for the UFS FreeBSD image, freebsd-12-x64, with freebsd-12-x64-ufs. Our support for 12.1 continues for three months after the release date of 12.2, which is currently scheduled for 31 January 2021.

October 2020

27 October

• The Fedora 33 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

26 October

• You can now change the default VPC network for a region. When you change the default VPC network for a region, the new default network will be automatically selected during applicable resource set ups unless otherwise specified.

22 October

• The Ubuntu 20.10 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

1 October

• All Droplets created after 1 October 2020 are placed into a VPC network by default. You can no longer manually enable VPC networking on existing Droplets. You can migrate existing Droplets into VPC networks using Snapshots.

September 2020

16 September

• Dedicated CPU Droplet plans now offer more SSD size options. Each plan contains SSD size variants that you can choose upon creation or when resizing a dedicated CPU Droplet.

8 September

• Fedora 30 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

2 September

• Standard Droplet plans have been replaced with Basic Droplet plans. We have added one new plan, s-8vcpu-16gb, and deprecated the following plans:

  • s-1vcpu-3gb
  • s-3vcpu-1gb
  • s-6vcpu-16gb
  • s-8vcpu-32gb
  • s-12vcpu-48gb
  • s-16vcpu-64gb
  • s-20vcpu-96gb
  • s-24vcpu-128gb
  • s-32vcpu-192gb

  These deprecated plans are now unavailable in the control panel, but you can still create Droplets with those plans using the API or doctl.

August 2020

4 August

• We have released a Droplet metadata endpoint which returns whether or not a Droplet is scheduled for a live migration. The impact of live migrations on Droplets is minimal, so users now only receive direct notifications for migrations that require us to power down a Droplet, which (except in emergencies) we send 7 days in advance.

1 August

• Ubuntu 19.10 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

July 2020

31 July

• Memory-Optimized Droplets are now available for the BLR1 datacenter region.

23 July

• The FreeBSD 11.4 UFS and ZFS base images are now available in the control panel and via the API.

22 July

• Memory-Optimized Droplets are now in general availability and are available in the SFO3 and TOR1 datacenter regions.

May 2020

26 May

• CoreOS Container Linux has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.

15 May

• Users can now search for Marketplace apps directly from the Droplet Create page.

12 May

• The ability to choose a root password during Droplet creation has been reinstated.

April 2020

29 April

• Users can now use the API to destroy select resources associated with a Droplet when destroying a Droplet. You can destroy snapshots, volumes, or volume snapshots associated with a Droplet.

28 April

• The Fedora 32 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

• The DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service is now available for all customers. VPC replaces the private networking service. Existing private networks will continue to function as normal but with the enhanced security and features of the VPC service. See the description of VPC features for more information.

23 April

• The Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

22 April

• The option to set your own root password during Droplet creation has been temporarily removed. You can still choose to connect to your Droplet using an SSH key or an automatically-generated password via email.

21 April

• You can now choose a root password during Droplet creation rather than receiving an automatically-generated password via email.

7 April

• We began the incremental release of the DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service. It will be available for all customers soon. VPC replaces the private networking service.

March 2020

16 March

• Updated the Droplet-based Marketplace WordPress 1-Click App to now use PHP 7.4 and MySQL server 8.0.19.

13 March

• Users who create a 1-Click App can now access the instructions for their app by clicking the Get Started link next to their Droplet on the project homepage.

12 March

• You can now only rebuild Droplets from images that use an OS that resides in the same OS family as the Droplet being rebuilt. For example, a Droplet running Ubuntu 16 can be rebuilt from an image running Ubuntu 18, but it cannot be built from an image running Debian.

11 March

• The Debian 10.3 and 9.12 base images are now available in the control panel and via the API.

9 March

• Users can now destroy select resources associated with a Droplet when destroying a Droplet.

February 2020

24 February

• We began the incremental release of a feature that allows users to destroy select resources associated with a Droplet when they destroy the Droplet.

January 2020

30 January

• Ubuntu 19.04, FreeBSD 12.0, Fedora 28, Fedora 28 Atomic, and Fedora 29 have reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, these images are available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove them from our platform.

24 January

• The RancherOS 1.5.5 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

22 January

• The CentOS 8.1 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

December 2019

18 December

• The Fedora 31 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

17 December

• The Debian 10.2 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

12 December

• The FreeBSD 12.1 (ufs & zfs) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

November 2019

8 November

• Memory-Optimized Droplets are now available in the SGP1 datacenter region. See Choosing the Right Droplet Plan for more information.

4 November

• General Purpose Droplets are now available in the LON1 datacenter region. See Choosing the Right Droplet Plan for more information.

October 2019

31 October

• Memory-Optimized Droplets are now in general availability and are available in the NYC1 and SFO2 datacenter regions.

21 October

• The Ubuntu 19.10 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

September 2019

10 September

• Memory-Optimized Droplets are now in Limited Availability in the NYC3 and AMS3 regions. See Introducing Memory-Optimized Droplets with 8 GB RAM for Each Dedicated vCPU to learn more.

August 2019

14 August

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

July 2019

12 July

• We have updated the FreeBSD 12 (ufs & zfs) images to fix a bug related to private networking and SSH keys.

• The FreeBSD 11.3 base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

8 July

• The Debian 10 (buster) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.

June 2019

17 June

• 6-hour and 1-day alert policies for Droplets and Kubernetes worker nodes have been deprecated. No new alert policies with these intervals can be created. Existing alert policies using these intervals will remain in place until 1 August 2019, at which point they will be modified to reflect a 1-hour interval.

3 June

• We have updated the RancherOS base image from v1.5.1 to v1.5.2 in the control panel and API.

May 2019

22 May

• FreeBSD 12.0 (ufs & zfs) base images are now available in the control panel and via the API.

• FreeBSD 10.4 (ufs & zfs) has reached end of life and is no longer available from the control panel.

• Fedora 27 reached end of life and is no longer available from the control panel.

1 May

• Fedora 30 base images are now available in the control panel and via the API using the slug fedora-30-x64.

April 2019

30 April

• Ubuntu 14.04 reached end of life and is no longer available from the control panel.

18 April

• Ubuntu 19.04 base images are now available in the control panel and via the API using the slug ubuntu-19-04-x64.

2 April

• General Purpose Performance Droplet plans are now in General Availability with the addition of SFO2, AMS3, and SGP1.

March 2019

30 March

• Debian 8 has reached end of life. We have removed the Debian 8 base image from the control panel and API.

February 2019

26 February

• General Purpose Performance Droplet plans were released.

October 2018

18 October

• Ubuntu 18.10 base images are now available in the control panel and via the API using the slug ubuntu-18-10-x64.

September 2018

10 September

• Ubuntu 18.04 is now the default image when creating new Droplets from the control panel.

August 2018

14 August

• Discontinued the CPU-optimized Droplet 2 GB/1vCPU plan.

• The Recovery Console now supports pasting information into the console.

1 August

• We have enabled the 192 GB Standard Droplet plan in AMS3, BLR1, FRA1, LON1, NYC3, NYC1, SGP1, SFO2, and TOR1.

July 2018

27 July

• We have updated the default Ubuntu x64 base image from 16.04.4 to 18.04.1. For details about 18.04.1, see the Ubuntu release notes.

19 July

• Ubuntu 17.10 reached end of life today and is no longer available from the control panel or API.

16 July

• We updated the Debian 9 base image from 9.4 to 9.5. The image is available in the control panel and via the API using the slug debian-9-x64.

11 July

• Local disk size for the 1vCPU-Optimized Droplet plan (c-1vcpu-2gb) increased from 20 GB to 25 GB.

3 July

• The FreeBSD 11.2 is now available through the control panel and through the API using the slug freebsd-11-2-x64-zfs.

1 July

• The changes to Droplet bandwidth billing announced on April 24 were put into effect.

June 2018

19 June

• Debian 7 reached end of life and is no longer available from the control panel.

13 June

• We updated the RancherOS container image from 12.0 to 14.0. Learn more about the new version on Rancher’s release page.

11 June

• Expanded Droplet View allows customers using the Dashboard to click a Droplet and quickly view additional information about the Droplet without having to go to the Droplet Page. It also updates the list of Droplets to display at a glance whether Backups are on/off and if a Floating IP is attached.

5 June

• Released new Droplet feature to allow customers to boot Droplets from a Recovery ISO. Learn more in How To Recover from File System Corruption Using Fsck and a Recovery ISO.

May 2018

17 May

• Turned on Droplet Search in the top menu for all users. Allows users to quickly search for Droplets by name or IP address and go directly to the Droplet Page.

1 May

• Fedora 28 is now available using the slugs fedora-28-x64 and fedora-28-x64-atomic. The images are now public to all users.

April 2018

27 April

• Ubuntu 18.04 is now available through the control panel and via our API using the slug ubuntu-18-04-x64

24 April

• Changes to Droplet Bandwidth Billing announced. The new billing plan goes into effect June 1. Charges for June, if any, will appear on the July 1 bill. Customers can view usage and billing information on their billing page.

17 April

• 1vCPU-Optimized Droplet launched.

January 2018

16 January

• DigitalOcean upgrades Memory, SSD and vCPU across all Standard, Flexible and Optimized Droplet plans.