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Elasticsearch 5.6, upcoming Cloud Foundry Summit, and platform updates
Announcements In this featured FEC Case Study, find out how cloud.gov helps the agency ensure their applications are available, secure, and resilient. Want us to feature your agency? Drop us a line at inquiries@cloud.gov. Join us at the Cloud Foundry Summit on April 18-20 in Boston, MA. Members of...
Major outage postmortem
On Tuesday January 9 from 17:09 EST to approximately 23:42 EST (6 hours and 33 minutes), the cloud.gov platform and customer applications were unavailable. This was the longest and most significant outage in the history of our platform. No data was lost. We’ve published a postmortem that includes what we’re...
Note about Meltdown/Spectre vulnerabilities
cloud.gov is tracking the recent public disclosure of vulnerabilities in modern CPUs, named the Meltdown and Spectre attacks. We are taking all available steps to mitigate the impact of these vulnerabilities. No customer action is required. Our cloud infrastructure provider has already updated their systems so that cloud.gov customer applications...
A new homepage, quickstart guide, and more
We’ve been hard at work making cloud.gov work for you. We’re constantly optimizing the platform so it’s secure and meets your expectations. Here are some highlights from our platform updates in the last month. Added We updated our homepage! Now you can find more helpful resources and links to customer...
Starting now, sandboxes expire after 90 days
Starting today, sandbox spaces will expire automatically every 90 days, as planned in our monthly update from November. Here’s what to expect: Any sandbox applications you have right now will be deleted 90 days from today, along with service instances (such as databases), routes, etc., in the sandbox. You will...
cloud.gov monthly update: Buildpack notifications, volume services, and other new features
We’ve been hard at work shipping out new features to help you make your apps better, more secure, and improve your experience developing and deploying them. There’s a lot more in here than usual. We hope you see some features and additions in here that you’ve been waiting for. As...
High availability Redis, our upcoming workshop, and more from cloud.gov
Curious what’s new that you might find helpful as a cloud.gov user? Here are highlights from our platform updates over the past two weeks. Announcements Reminder: Our workshop is coming up on September 28th. If you’re evaluating cloud.gov or getting started with it, you will learn how to use cloud.gov...
cloud.gov platform release notes, plus join our workshop on September 28
Curious what’s new that you might find helpful as a cloud.gov user? Here are highlights from our platform updates over the past two weeks. Announcements cloud.gov Workshop: You’re invited to our free cloud.gov workshop on September 28th. If you’re evaluating cloud.gov or getting started with it, you will learn how...