March 2026 — VPC Network, Elastic IP & Database as a Service
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Virtual networking and managed databases both land on the console this month.
VPC Network & Elastic IP
- VPC Network — create and manage VPCs with subnets, CIDRs, gateway and router status.
- Elastic IP — allocate static IPs, attach or detach them from instances, and release them back to the pool.
- Network summary — an at-a-glance view of your networking and NAT configuration.
Database as a Service
Fully managed databases across four engines — Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB.
- Create a database in four steps: engine → configuration → storage → authentication.
- Full lifecycle: start, stop, restart, resize and delete.
- View the endpoint and connection command, with secure password retrieval.
- Redis replication — spin up a read replica that inherits its config from the master.
- Monitoring for CPU, memory, network and disk, auto-refreshing every 15 seconds.
