New Spaces features make it easier to stay secure, compliant, and in control

New Spaces features make it easier to stay secure, compliant, and in control Spaces access logs are now generally available New Spaces connection wizard makes third-party tools easier to use No additional cost. Just a better experience. Watch the webinar to scale smarter with all Q2 2025 IaaS updates About the author(s) Try DigitalOcean for free Related Articles Announcing OpenAI gpt-oss Models on the DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Build smarter AI agents: new tools now available for the DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform Introducing GPU Droplets accelerated by NVIDIA HGX H200 By Anantha Ramachandran and Keshav Attrey Published: June 18, 2025 4 min read As teams grow and their cloud storage needs scale, seemingly small issues can snowball into bigger problems. We’ve seen common pain points emerge, like struggling to track who accessed files through CDN endpoints, or wrestling with tricky configurations when using third-party tools like the AWS CLI or s3cmd, plus missed audit trails, prolonged troubleshooting, or accidental misconfigurations that can lead to data loss. That’s why we’ve made two important updates to help simplify and strengthen the way you manage object storage with DigitalOcean Spaces , our S3-compatible object storage solution, built for simplicity, scalability, and affordability. Whether you’re serving up images on a website, storing large media files, managing data backups, or powering developer workflows, Spaces helps you move fast without managing infrastructure. These new features—the general availability of Spaces access logs and the introduction of the connection wizard—are designed to enhance your visibility, minimize risk, and empower you to work with greater confidence. With access logs, you can get detailed, time-stamped records of all file read and write requests, including traffic that flows through both Spaces origin and CDN endpoints. Previously, there was no easy way to monitor who was accessing your files over the CDN. That made it difficult to troubleshoot, detect suspicious behavior, or meet compliance and audit requirements. What’s new Logs now capture both direct and CDN traffic, so you have a complete view of object activity. Logs now capture both direct and CDN traffic, so you have a complete view of object activity.