--- title: "DigitalOcean PostgreSQL and MySQL Standard Edition drop plans above 4 GiB RAM and standby/read-only nodes: 2026-11-30 | Harbyn" description: "DigitalOcean PostgreSQL and MySQL Standard Edition drop plans above 4 GiB RAM and standby/read-only nodes, effective Nov 30, 2026." canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/digitalocean/2026-09-30-30-september-2026-postgresql-mysql-upcoming" last-updated: 2026-10-08 --- # DigitalOcean PostgreSQL and MySQL Standard Edition drop plans above 4 GiB RAM and standby/read-only nodes Markdown version of . Retirement - DigitalOcean. medium severity. Announced. Upcoming. PostgreSQL and MySQL Standard Edition will no longer offer plans with more than 4 GiB of RAM or support standby and read-only nodes, starting 15 October 2026 for accounts that never created a PostgreSQL or MySQL cluster and 30 November 2026 for all accounts. Existing clusters are not affected. On 15 October 2026, Advanced Edition adds Basic Shared CPU plans with 8 GiB to 64 GiB of RAM. 36 days left: the deadline is Nov 30, 2026. ## Facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | [DigitalOcean](https://harbyn.com/vendors/digitalocean.md) | | Kind | Retirement | | Severity | medium | | Status | Announced | | Announced | Sep 30, 2026 | | Effective | Nov 30, 2026 | | Added to Harbyn | Oct 8, 2026 | | Lead time | 53 days of warning | | Vendor page | | | Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a model | ## Find it in your code ```sh npx harbyn scan ``` This change names no identifier the scanner can match line by line, so the scan tells you whether your repository uses DigitalOcean, from its packages and API hosts. Nothing leaves your machine. ## Sources Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot. - (changelog, fetched 2026-10-08 17:16 UTC, sha256 `c711ab94f99b3edb57573774e37592e4f972a0cd524d036451419fa210fac9dc`) ## Related changes ### More from DigitalOcean - [PostgreSQL Advanced Edition no longer supports installing extensions](https://harbyn.com/changes/digitalocean/2026-09-30-30-september-2026-postgresql.md) (Breaking change, announced Sep 30, 2026) - [doctl gradient commands deprecated](https://harbyn.com/changes/digitalocean/2026-09-29-29-september-2026-doctl-inference.md) (Deprecation, announced Sep 29, 2026) - [Agent Development Kit (ADK) deprecated](https://harbyn.com/changes/digitalocean/2026-10-01-1-october-2026-inference.md) (Deprecation, announced Oct 1, 2026) - [Valkey 9 available for database clusters](https://harbyn.com/changes/digitalocean/2026-09-28-28-september-2026-valkey.md) (Behavior change, announced Sep 28, 2026) ### Changes at other vendors - [OpenRouter: arcee-ai/trinity-large-thinking expire 2026-10-26](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-23-arcee-ai-trinity-large-thinking-expires-2026-10-26.md) (effective Oct 26, 2026) - [Google Cloud Run and Functions: Node.js 20 runtime decommission](https://harbyn.com/changes/google-cloud/2026-10-08-node-js-20-runtime-decommission.md) (effective Oct 30, 2026) - [Mistral AI: Z.ai GLM 5.2 (zai-glm-5-2) retires on Mistral on October 31, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/mistral/2026-09-29-z-ai-glm-5-2-deprecated-and-scheduled-for-retirement.md) (effective Oct 31, 2026) - [Fireworks AI: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 retires from Serverless Training November 2](https://harbyn.com/changes/fireworks/2026-10-18-upcoming-serverless-training-deprecation-deepseek-v4-flash-0731.md) (effective Nov 2, 2026) [All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)