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What's New?

An official patch has been released to improve network connectivity on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 instances. For more information, see Fixing Network Connectivity Issues on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 Instances.


  • You can synchronize your instances with Outscale NTP servers. For more information, see Outscale NTP Servers. 

  • You can now create VPN connection routes using Cockpit. For more information, see Creating a VPN Connection Route.

  • A new API method enables you to list public IPv4 addresses in a Region. For more information, see Getting Information About Public IP Addresses in a Region. 

  • Two new features are now available on Cockpit: 

  • Step-by-step instructions are now available to create and connect to your first instance. For more information, see Tutorial: Getting Started with the Outscale Cloud.

  • New official Outscale machine images (OMIs) are available for each Region, containing security patches for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. For more information, see Official OMIs Reference. 

    For instances created from an official CentOS 7 OMI after  , you need to connect with the centos user. For other Linux instances created from an official OMI, the user is root.

2.4.30

  • In the CreateLoadBalancer method, the SecurityGroups.member.N attribute is now required to create a load balancer in a VPC. For more information, see CreateLoadBalancer. 

2.4.29

  • The ReadPublicIpRanges method returns the list of public IPv4 addresses in a Region. For more information, see ReadPublicIpRanges. 

  • The ReadCatalog and ReadPublicCatalog methods now return prices for the Region of your account only. The Region attribute to specify another Region is no longer available. For more information, see ReadCatalog or ReadPublicCatalog. 

  • By default, traffic between two security groups is now allowed through both public and private IP addresses. For more information, see AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress and AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress. 

    To restrict traffic to private IP addresses only, contact our Support team: support@outscale.com.


Available Guides


Provides detailed information about our products and features and how to use them.

This guide explains all the concepts and provides all the information you need to know to use our products. You can find information about how to use Outscale Cloud with Cockpit, our web interface, and AWS CLI. For each feature, a link to the corresponding API method documentation is also provided.

For more information about the features available from Cockpit and how to access it, see About Cockpit. For more information about how to install and configure AWS CLI for Outscale Cloud, see Using AWS CLI in the Outscale Cloud.

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Provides documentation for each Outscale API, and an AWS compatibility matrix.

To directly access Outscale API documentation, click the following link: http://docs.outscale.com/

English only

Provides technical information to advanced users.

This guide contains best practices, documentation about advanced tools to use the Cloud and third-party software that you may need for some use cases, and procedures and tips about how to get the most of our Cloud.