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Replacement for F5 Big-IP offerings due to security breach

On October 15, 2025, F5 disclosed that a "highly sophisticated" nation-state actor had breached its internal systems, stealing portions of its BIG-IP source code and information about undisclosed vulnerabilities.Since then, we as managed service p...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Load Balancer Under review

Use Tier-3 volumes when creating a boot image from an exported VSI

When exporting a VSI to an Image Catalog (probably confusing term for IBM i guys) , the boot image uses the same Tier on the source volumes. Boot Images are not production data, but data on rest, and cost is the same than VSI attached ones. Please...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Under review

Show more util metrics in cloud monitoring about the use of the File Storage

Hello, now, in cloud monitoring, we can see only metrics for read and write operations, but we think that that other operations, like delete, open, etc, are important to know the activity of the file share. We have several FS with a few RW operati...
about 2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / File Storage Under review

Logical Replication with copy data in PostgreSQL 15

We would like to request support and clarification regarding logical replication behavior in PostgreSQL 15 on IBM Cloud. Currently, in IBM Cloud–managed PostgreSQL 15, logical replication with copy_data = true is not supported, This limitation cre...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Under review

Enable Cloudflare API Shield functionality in IBM Internet Services

Cloudflare has a suite of Enterprise options for API protection through their API Shield offering (https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/api-shield/). It would be good to have these options through IBM Internet Services as well.
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Network Under review

Proposal: Process Improvement for Floating IP Confirmation During VSI Deprovisioning

Background In IBM Cloud’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environment, a Floating IP is typically used to enable external access to a Virtual Server Instance (VSI).Since Floating IPs can be detached and reused across multiple resources, they provide f...
6 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers Under review

Improve 1-image-import-at-a-time bottleneck situation with ibmcloud power image import

This heavily impacts customers that are frequently building custom images for ppc64le. The single import bottleneck makes parallel image building exceptionally challenging (time-wise and effort-wise due to needing workarounds), pipelines are spend...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Under review

Historical Project level resource usage data for IT budget planning

Requesting historical Resource Usage by Project , Service & User. Priority is to identify the most active projects to budget accordingly Specifically for CP4DaaSz Current state: Current system shows monthly project statistics but lacks histo...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / AI / Machine Learning Under review

Enable Resource Group label on Redis and Mysql alerts configuration in sysdig

we have resource group scope in alert configurations of mongodb and postgresql under sysdig instance. the same we are expecting for redis and mysql which is not there currently. why we need it is we want segregate the env wise alerts in a single p...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Logging and Monitoring Under review

AWS PrivateLink capability

We would like to share a need for AWS Private Link in order to have possibility to switch from Data Link Classic into new Data Link. Currently we use Data Link Classic in order pull data from my organization AWS s3 bucket ( assume role), current s...
3 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Network (VPN) Under review

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