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Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by hackerboos on Saturday February 18, 2017 @05:57PM (#13677169)
According to the forums they weren't working on this as late as August 2016.
Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by monster2control on Saturday February 18, 2017 @10:56PM (#13678115)
Their blog post mentioned block storage beta is coming at the bottom of the post.

https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and...