August

August 8

Changes

• The new Shared Core family includes instance types c7gl50.* and c7gl20.* that provide a guaranteed processor availability of 50% and 20%, respectively, and run on gen7 CPUs, which correspond to 5th Gen Intel processors.

• The Apache Kafka message broker PaaS service can be run on a single node, which acts as both broker and coordinator.

August 23

Changes

• A new volume type nv1 — non-replicated NVMe SSD network drive — boasts practical performance of 200-300k IOPS for Linux instances and 100-150k IOPS for Windows ones. Volumes nv1 can be included in a volume placement group to prevent simultaneous failure and unavailability of multiple devices.

• K2 NeuroTech service is available for creating, training and using machine and deep learning models.

• For regular maintenance of PaaS services, you can set a desired maintenance window either via K2 Cloud web interface or using PaaS API method ModifyMaintenancePreferences.

API

• In CreateUser method, you can set tags in tags parameter when creating a user.

• The CreateTargetGroup and ModifyTargetGroup methods make it possible to set an HTTP path for checking target availability and describe a response code for a target to be deemed available.

• The ModifyListenerAttributes method helps modify HTTP header values returned by an ALB listener. To get the list of returned headers and their values, use the DescribeListenerAttributes method.

Fixed

• For Kubernetes v.1.29 or higher, clusters now support automatic certificate updates.

• VPC can be connected to the Internet right at its creation in VPC, instance, or launch template wizards.

• For metric graphs, you can select a time range to calculate statistics for.

• The retention period is displayed in the backups table.

• You can assign tags when adding users.