Custom Images Release Notes

Validated on 1 Jul 2022 • Last edited on 28 Mar 2024

July 2022

1 July

• The following pricing changes are now in effect:

  • A new $4 Droplet with 512 MB of memory, 10 GB of storage, 1 vCPU, and 500 GB 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.

August 2021

31 August

• You can now assign floating IP addresses to Droplets that use custom images.

March 2020

11 March

• Users can now upload custom images using FTP URLs.

October 2018

23 October

• Droplets created from custom images now support snapshots and backups.

September 2018

25 September

• Released custom image support which allows customers to upload their Linux and Unix-like images to their DigitalOcean account and use them to create Droplets.