Release notes

Use the release notes to learn about the latest changes to the documentation for the IBM Cloud for Financial Services®.

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24 March 2025

Updated Infrastructure as Code (IaC) article to point at new deployable architectures.

Removed recommendation that limited deployments to a subset of available multizone regions.

Integrated references to supplemental guidance for enterprise account architecture for large enterprises.

Updated list of multizone regions which are IBM Cloud for Financial Services Validated to include Toronto (ca-tor) and Sydney (au-syd).

Updated list of services which are designated as IBM Cloud for Financial Services Validated to include IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center, IBM Cloud® Continuous Delivery, IBM Cloud® Secrets Manager, and IBM Cloud® Client VPN for VPC.

Added contextual links into IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services - Control Requirements to make it easier to understand how the control requirements related to implementation guidance.

Added extensive content for the new IBM Cloud Satellite® reference architecture as well as deployment and configuration guidance for that architecture. During this process, there were numerous organizational changes that were made due to the overlap between the IBM Cloud Satellite® reference architecture and the IBM Cloud VPC reference architecture.
Enabled link to spreadsheet of control requirements in IBM Cloud Framework for Financial Services.
Added article Deploy infrastructure as code for reference architectures about Terraform automation for IBM Cloud for Financial Services.
Enhanced content on IBM Cloud® Security and Compliance Center and IBM Cloud for Financial Services profile. See Compliance monitoring.
Added site map.
Made many editorial updates.

Clarify guidance around using IBM Cloud Financial Services Validated services depending on whether you are a financial institution or technology vendor. Add guidance about using IBM Cloud Activity Tracker Event Routing in regions where event routing is not available.

Added information on an approved variation of the VPC reference architecture to allow public internet access to the workload VPC. Added related tutorials on setting up a virtual network firewall in a new edge/transit VPC.

Revamped Best practices for software as a service. Added clarifications and detail. Also, added some new best practices derived from the Control Implementation Overview Template documents.