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The ability to natively and privately connect from Code Engine to IBM Cloud VPC resources (e.g. Virtual Servers) without going through Satellite Connector, VPN tunnel or over a public endpoint

This would be useful for all customers who want to integrate Code Engine with their existing VPC resources. It would greatly enhance the use cases covered by Code Engine, and competitively, would provide a feature that is built-in on other cloud p...
3 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

IBM Cloud Announcement for High Impact VSI migration Events

Only 1 IBM Cloud Announcement is received 30days prior to high impact VSI migration events. For such events, we would prefer reminders to be sent every week and not just one 30-day announcement. Also prefer to see impacted devices in the email rec...
4 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Future consideration

Feature requests for IBM Transit Gateway Route Tables.

Proposed feature: Like the AWS implementation ( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/tgw/tgw-route-tables.html ), users can define the Transit Gateway Route Table (TGRT) per connection. In the example below, customer-1’s TGRT can see the route t...
about 2 months ago in Network 0 Future consideration

Virtualization of High Cost Hardware

Moving hardware solutions to virtual changes our costs from fixed to a variable based on traffic, and customers, and consolidates our platform to our SDN. This allows us to pay for license when in use versus "sinking" the cost of a full router and...
over 1 year ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Increase VPC Remote Security Group Limit

Within your VPC, there are two ways to grant and allow network traffic: Security Groups (SG) and Access Control Lists (ACL). We prefer to use the SGs because they are stateless and their use results in fewer rules which makes understanding our sec...
over 1 year ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Service tags for Security Groups and ACLs

It would be very helpful if we could work with service tags for the SG and ACL definitions. For example, for Internet traffic, Zones, IBM Cloud Services, Cloudflare, etc. This would make manual and static maintenance of long lists of IPs in the SG...
over 1 year ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

Improve search UI for VSIs

Cadence design has a significant number of VSIs and the search tool on the UI does not work beyond 200 VSIs. This is extremely frustrating to to the customer and makes working in the portal difficult and time consuming.
6 months ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

New profile High memory with low number of processors

Is there a VPC profile that has a large amount of RAM, but a low number of processors. e.g.:Processors -> 12Memory -> 512GB (minimum)I see the closest one in London is ux2d-16x448.... but that does not have enough memory for the Siemens/Tata...
about 1 year ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Future consideration

We should be able to delete ALBs on IKS Classic Infrastructure

In the current setup, the ALBs provisioned with IKS in Classc Infrastructure mode cannot be deleted - only disabled, and their deployment removed from the Kubernetes cluster. We should be able to have these definitions removed as metadata, so they...
over 3 years ago in Load Balancer 0 Future consideration

Provide feature to allow customer to create routing rule for Direct Link 2.0

I have created new Direct Link 2.0 service to setup a interconnection between a IBM Cloud VPC and a IBM Power Subnet. I have found out the routing won't automatically work after I created the connection. I will need to create support ticket, then ...
over 4 years ago in Direct Link 0 Future consideration