26 March 2025

IBM Cloud AI assistant can now assist you with getting support

To bring you an updated platform experience, the IBM Cloud AI assistant is available to help with your questions about IBM Cloud and can assist you with getting support for account, billing, and technical support issues according to your support plan. You can query about your support cases or request to be handed off to a live support agent. For more information, see Getting help from the AI assistant.

13 March 2025

Montreal single-campus MZR availability

A new single-campus MZR (SC-MZR) location is now available in Montreal (ca-mon). You can review the Service and infrastructure availability by location page to learn about the services that are available in this new location. For more information about IBM Cloud SC-MZRs and MZRs, see IBM Cloud region and data center locations for resource deployment.

17 December 2024

Experimental: Customize a deployable architecture from the catalog

You can now customize a deployable architecture by adding optional components in the IBM Cloud console. Add the Cloud automation for Secrets Manager deployable architecture to a project to get started.

For more information about onboarding a deployable architecture and specifying optional components that work with it, go to Optional and swappable components for deployable architectures.

13 December 2024

Service ID limits are increased with groups

With Service ID groups, your account can now contain up to 100,000 service IDs, with up to 2,000 service IDs in each group. Existing service IDs were added to the default group. For more information, go to Creating and working with service IDs.

21 November 2024

Experimental: Connect your project to a Git repository

You can now connect a project to a Git repository to save configurations there. By doing so, you can use your repository and the CI / CD tools of your choosing to automate pipelines on configurations. Connecting a project to a Git repository works best with a new project that doesn't contain any configurations. This is an experimental feature that is available for evaluation and testing purposes and might change without notice. For more information, go to Integrating a project with a Git repository.

12 November 2024

The AI assistant is generally available

The AI assistant is available to help answer your questions about working in IBM Cloud. In addition to being able to launch the AI assistant in the IBM Cloud console, you can also ask questions from the IBM Cloud CLI. For more information, see Getting help from the AI assistant.

17 October 2024

Consolidated and simplified IBM Cloud platform

IBM Cloud is bringing simplification to your door. The IBM Cloud platform recently consolidated and simplified services and features. Services and areas of the console are now unified into the following hubs: Infrastructure, Containers, Automation, Databases, Observability, and Security with the goal to bundle together related services to make it easier to find, deploy, and use them. Users can now easily search for new services to accelerate business-critical workloads and better manage what is already running to help ensure their business stays on top of its velocity. For more information, see Navigating the IBM Cloud console.

Improving the account and enterprise documentation experience

Easily navigate enterprise information with the latest update to IBM Cloud docs. Now, you can browse key information about enterprises in one location. The documentation that supports enterprise accounts is moved to enterprise management. This includes everything you need to successfully create and manage enterprise accounts, including billing and usage and getting support.

A simplified account documentation experience is now available. You can find all information related to your account in the updated account documentation, including billing and usage and getting support.

03 October 2024

Project widget updates

From the Overview tab in a project, you can now view the resource summary and configuration usage widgets to quickly get an overview of the resources and usage in your project. These widgets provide a snapshot of key metrics, such as cost and counts of resources by category, simplifying the process of monitoring and managing resources within a project.

07 August 2024

Experimental: Access resources from the Resources tab

A link to resources is now available from the Resources tab in a project. If the resource exists in a different account, the console automatically switches to that account if you have access to it. If you don't have access to that account, the console displays an error message.

View counts for all resources in the resource summary widget

The resource summary widget for a project now shows resource counts for all resources in a project by default. The All resources option in the widget's menu is selected by default. To view resource counts for a specific configuration, select that configuration from the menu.

17 June 2024

Experimental: Using AI to answer your questions about IBM Cloud

Wherever you are working in the IBM Cloud console, you can launch the AI assistant to help answer your questions about working in IBM Cloud. The AI assistant is designed as a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) implementation that is running against IBM® large language models using IBM's watsonx. For more information, see Getting help from the AI assistant.

Changes to IBM Cloud projects API method to list all deployed resources

A change was made to the project.config.retrieve-resources API method to improve its performance. This change can cause some of the resources to temporarily disappear from the Resources tab in your configurations. The resources were not destroyed. Redeploy the configurations to see the resources again.

Experimental: Project Resources tab

Manage the resources in your project in the new Resources tab. You can add existing resources to your project without using a configuration. To get started, see Adding existing resources to a project.

31 May 2024

Onboarding software with usage-based pricing plans

In addition to free and bring your own license plans, you can now add usage-based pricing plans to software onboarded with the virtual server image delivery method, offering it as a paid integrated product in the IBM Cloud catalog. For more information, see Adding a usage-based plan and Onboarding a virtual server image for VPC with a plan.

After adding a plan to your software in Partner Center, you can also manage it in your private catalog. This includes adding features, changing the plan’s state, deprecating it, or updating plan details. For more information, see Managing software plans in catalogs.

18 May 2024

Google login and registration

Google is now available for IBM Cloud login and IBM Cloud registration. As a non-federated user, you can use your existing Google credentials to securely log in to IBM Cloud or create a new IBM Cloud account. Learn more.

06 May 2024

Experimental: Stack deployable architectures by using the console

Create more complex end-to-end solutions, without editing Terraform, by stacking deployable architectures. To get started, see Stacking deployable architectures.

10 April 2024

Discover your software resources by category

Software resources that are deployed in your account are now able to be discovered in their associated catalog category. To quickly find your product, you can still take advantage of the console's filtering capabilities.

03 April 2024

Projects API v1.0.0

Version 1.0.0 of the projects API is now available. To learn more about the changes that are included in this release, see the Projects API change log.

Experimental: Stacking deployable architectures

You can now stack deployable architectures together to create more complex end-to-end scenarios by using either the API or the CLI. To learn more about stacking deployable architectures, see What is a deployable architecture?

21 March 2024

Increased limits for enterprises

Easily scale your organization and workloads with increased limits on the number of accounts and account groups that you can have in your enterprise. You can have a maximum of 1000 accounts and 500 account groups.

05 March 2024

Upgrade your Pay-As-You-Go account

You can now create an enterprise from Pay-As-You-Go accounts that signed up with a credit card on cloud.ibm.com. For more information, see Billing FAQs.

20 February 2024

Organize existing resources in your project

Now, you can use a project to organize resources across accounts. By doing so, your resources remain deployed in their respective accounts, but you gain an at-a-glance view of those resources in your project. Organizing resources is experimental and might change without notice. For more information, see Organizing existing resources by using a project.

06 February 2024

Automatically detect drift in your project

You can now run a daily scan to detect any changes between your configured architecture and the actual state of your deployed resources. To fix drift, you can override the changes or adopt them. Automatic drift detection is an experimental feature and might change without notice. For more information, see Managing Drift.

Add references in your project

It's now easier to link architectures to one another by adding references to inputs or outputs. Add the reference as an input in an architecture that you're configuring, and the value is automatically used for deployment. For more information, see referencing values.

Duplicate configurations in your project

Now, you can duplicate an architecture configuration from the Configurations tab in a project. By doing so, you can quickly create a second version of your configuration with all of the input values that were provided in the original configuration. From the Configurations tab, select the Actions icon for the configuration you want to duplicate and click Duplicate.

07 December 2023

Limit access with resource attribute-based conditions

IBM Cloud IAM is excited to give customers the ability to grant access based on multiple resource attribute-based conditions. With this ability, you can create a single policy with various conditions instead of individual access policies. For more information, see Limiting access with resource attribute-based conditions.

17 November 2023

Protect your private catalog and private products

Add an extra layer of protection to your private catalogs with context-based restrictions. Users can view the catalogs that you protect only if they satisfy your rule.

14 November 2023

Move deployed software into a deployable architecture and manage it by using a project

Use the IBM Cloud Catalogs management CLI plugin and the Project CLI plugin to convert deployed software or an existing Schematics workspace and its resources into a format that is compatible with using projects to manage future deployments. For more information, see Moving resources from a Schematics workspace into a project and the white paper on Moving to the enterprise architecture.

09 November 2023

Onboarding virtual server images with Terraform is deprecated

As of 9 November 2023, the option to onboard virtual server images with Terraform is deprecated. If you onboarded software by using this delivery method before this date, your customers can still install the VSIs, but you can't provide any version updates. After 29 March 2024, onboarding virtual server images with Terraform is no longer supported as a delivery method, which means that no new virtual server images with Terraform can be onboarded. Existing VSIs in the IBM Cloud catalog will be available to use, but to take advantage of version updates and ensure continued support, onboard virtual server images for Virtual Private Cloud directly. For more information, see Onboarding a virtual server image for VPC.

06 November 2023

Introducing environments and general improvements to projects API and CLI

You can now group configurations together within a project by using environments. Environments can also contain properties like input values that are automatically added to configurations. This release also includes updates to the projects API and CLI. The commands are normalized so they follow a regular pattern, and terminology is now aligned across our UI, CLI, and API.

For more information on environments, see Controlling deployments by using environments. For more information on updates to the projects API, see the projects API change log. For more information on updates to the projects CLI, see the projects CLI change log.

30 October 2023

Selecting currency

The option to select local currency and USD is now available during IBM Cloud registration for users in Canada, United Kingdom/Ireland, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Australia, and New Zealand.

26 October 2023

Symantec VIP 2FA is deprecated

If you are currently using Symantec VIP as your external authentication method, you can continue to use it and add subscribers as needed until 26 October 2024. If you are not already using Symantec VIP, then you can't purchase Symantec VIP to use as your external authentication method as of 26 October 2023.

All customers currently using Symantec VIP must migrate to IBM Cloud MFA by 26 October 2024. For more information about how easy is it to migrate to this no-cost MFA option, see Migrating to IBM Cloud MFA.

19 October 2023

Partner Center Build & Grow is deprecated

As of 19 October 2023, Partner Center Build and Grow is no longer supported. The new simplified and unified build experience has moved to the IBM Partner Plus website, where you can start enrolling. For more information, go to the Partner Plus website and enroll by clicking Join IBM Partner Plus.

20 September 2023

Support for onboarding third-party deployable architectures in Partner Center

You can now onboard deployable architectures in Partner Center and publish them to the IBM Cloud catalog. A deployable architecture is cloud automation for deploying a common architectural pattern that combines one or more cloud resources that are designed for easy deployment, scalability, and modularity that solves a customer-defined problem. For more information, see Getting set up to sell deployable architectures.

6 September 2023

Cross-account product sharing

You can now share products from your private catalog with other accounts without publishing them to the IBM Cloud catalog. For more information, see Sharing private catalog offerings. The administrator of the account that you want to share your product with must accept the share request to opt in to accessing the offerings that you share. For more information, see Accepting share requests for private catalog offerings.

New CLI commands for cross-account product sharing

New ibmcloud catalog account commands are available for cross-account product sharing. For more information, see the Catalogs management CLI plug-in documentation.

Expanded integration between catalogs and projects

You can now link a catalog with a project. A successful validation of a linked project will validate the associated version as well. For more information, see the new section Setting up a target account in the docs.

Catalog and onboarding support for IBM Z® when deploying VSI images

Partners and IBM Cloud users can now onboard Virtual Server Images with IBM Z deployment support. Navigate to your private catalog to get started adding this image. For more information, see Onboarding software to your account.

5 September 2023

Centrally administer your multi-account environment

IBM Cloud is excited to announce that you can now centrally administer access and security settings in your organization with Enterprise-managed IAM. By using enterprise IAM templates, you can quickly create and manage access groups and trusted profiles across accounts and easily ensure that all new accounts inherit the same settings. Leveraging Enterprise-managed IAM can help your organization save time and effort, reduce the risk of unauthorized access, stay compliant with industry regulations and better protect your data. For more information, see Best practices for assigning access in an enterprise.

1 September 2023

IBM Cloud January 2024 price changes

Effective 1 January 2024, prices for some services will be increasing. For more information, see January 2024 price changes.

25 July 2023

Projects integration with IBM Cloud Schematics and general improvements

Projects are integrated more seamlessly with Schematics, as users can now view the Schematics logs directly from their project during validation and deployment. This release also includes system improvements to deleting a project. A recent update to the Code Risk Analyzer might result in fewer validation errors for deployable architectures that include Event Streams resources.

11 July 2023

New multizone region (MZR) available in Madrid

Resources can be deployed to a new MZR in Madrid, Spain. There are three data centers available in the eu-es region: MAD02, MAD04, and MAD05. For more information about location availability, see Locations for resource deployment.

6 July 2023

Projects API response models update

The response models for all methods now enforce a lower snake case format in state values. This format needs to be expected in the response when you are calling the project and configuration endpoints. This update is a breaking change. For more information, see the change log.

6 June 2023

New event notifications for projects

You can now send out notifications when a deployment is complete or when resources are successfully destroyed. For more information, see the available events for projects.

Support for access management tags in the projects UI

You can now add, edit, and delete access management tags directly in the projects UI. Previously, you could manage these tags only by using the command-line interface (CLI) or API.

25 April 2023

Customized compliance validation

In addition to using default controls, you can specify a Security and Compliance Center attachment to validate deployable architectures that you're configuring in a project. For more information, see Configuring the architecture.

Support for deployable architectures onboarded from private or public GitHub repositories

You can now deploy architectures that are onboarded to the catalog from either a private or public GitHub repository. Previously, only deployable architectures onboarded from a public GitHub repository were supported.

17 April 2023

Check out deployable architectures in the catalog

IBM Cloud provides deployable architectures in the catalog, which are products that provide automation for the deployment of common architectural patterns that combine one or more cloud resources and are designed for scalability and modularity. Go to the catalog, and filter by Deployable architectures to review the growing catalog of options. For more information, see Identifying the right infrastructure architecture.

IBM Cloud projects for automated IaC deployments

You can now configure, deploy, and monitor deployments by using DevOps best practices with projects. By using projects, you can manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) at scale and across accounts to ensure that the configuration is always valid, secure, and compliant. Learn more about IaC deployments with projects.

Onboard customized deployable architectures for your enterprise users

You can customize IBM Cloud deployable architectures to meet your enterprise’s needs, and then leverage private catalogs to make only approved and compliant architectures available for your enterprise developers to deploy. For more information, see Customizing an IBM Cloud deployable architecture.

12 April 2023

Specify language support for community-supported products

If you offer a third-party product that is supported by open source communities, you can select the languages in which support is provided when you're onboarding or managing your product in Partner Center. By providing support in multiple languages, your customers can communicate their issues in their preferred language and get support more efficiently. For more information, see Defining your support experience.

10 April 2023

View email notification history

You can use the Communication history page in the console to check the status of all email notifications that are sent you to verify if the emails are being delivered successfully. You can also view the last 90 days of IBM Cloud email history, which can help save you time troubleshooting any delivery issues without needing to contact IBM support. For more information, see Checking the delivery status of email notifications and viewing email history.

04 April 2023

Customize the look and feel of your private catalog

You can enhance the appearance of your private catalog to match your brand by adding a custom banner image to your private catalogs. For more information about personalizing your private catalog, see Branding your private catalog with a custom banner.

Add a custom provider name for your private products

You can make it easier for users to search for your products added to a private catalog by specifying a custom provider name. Adding a custom provider name for your private products can help users find them quickly by using the Provider filter in the catalog. For more information, see Providing catalog entry details.

29 March 2023

Generate a report on the MFA status of account users

Users that don't meet MFA requirements leave your account vulnerable. You can now identify the users in your account that don't satisfy your MFA requirements. For more information, see Identifying a user's MFA status.

An extra layer of security for users that don't use MFA

IBM Cloud recommends enabling multifactor authentication (MFA) for all users in your account, but some automation scenarios might require you to exclude specific users from your MFA requirement. For users that are excluded from MFA, you can make access more secure by disabling CLI logins with only a username and password. This way, you require an API key to log in to the CLI or users can log in with --sso. For more information, see Disabling MFA.

22 February 2023

User-specific MFA

You can now enforce user-specific multifactor authentication (MFA) requirements that differ from the account default MFA setting. After you update the MFA requirement for an individual user, view a list of users that have unique MFA requirements in the account by going to Manage > Access (IAM) > Settings > Authentication. For more information, see Enabling MFA for an individual user.

20 February 2023

Download and read IBM Cloud docs offline

While digital is still the primary delivery target for IBM Cloud docs, you can now print or download and read a doc set offline. Go to the menu next to the doc set title in the navigation and click View as PDF.

27 January 2023

New services integrating with context-based restriction

Services continue to integrate with the IBM Cloud platform's context-based restrictions feature, including IBM Cloud® Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Infrastructure Services. To see a full list of services that can use context-based restrictions to define and enforce access restrictions on their resources, see Services integrated with context-based restrictions.

25 January 2023

Time-based conditions in IAM access policies

IBM Cloud IAM is excited to give customers the ability to set access controls based on a specified time and date. You can now create policies that grant employees access to a resource during only their working hours, or grant automated processes temporary access for a specified duration. Implementing such limitations helps you to apply the principle of least privilege for assigning access and reduces the opportunity for attack in the event of a security breach. For more information, see Limiting access with time-based conditions.

IAM Policy Management API V2 release

A new version (v2) of the IAM Policy Management API is now available. This version adds a new JSON schema to support a conditional policy construct and several time-based comparison operators. These operators provide the capability to restrict access based on time and date. With time-based access control, customers can establish granular policy enforcement based on a specified time period. For more information, see the IAM Policy Management API change log

09 January 2023

Save and share multiple estimates by using the IBM Cloud Cost Estimator

The IBM Cloud Cost Estimator now allows a customer to save multiple estimates to their account and share those estimates with users that belong to the same account. For more information, see Estimating your costs.

15 December 2022

Checklist for getting started on IBM Cloud

A new checklist is now available in the IBM Cloud docs for Getting started on IBM Cloud. This checklist outlines the tasks for you to complete to accelerate your journey to cloud by guiding you through your account setup and organization of resources.

10 October 2022

A new way to provide the IBM Cloud docs team your feedback

We want to hear from you! Let us know about your experience with the IBM Cloud docs or API docs by submitting your feedback from the Feedback button. You can tell us what you love and even what you’d like to see improved, so we can work together to ensure that you always enjoy the IBM Cloud documentation.

07 October 2022

Setting an alternative account owner

As the owner of an account with classic infrastructure, you can set a trusted profile as the alternative account owner. An alternative account owner ensures that you always have a secure way to manage account ownership if your account owner leaves your organization or isn't available.

04 October 2022

Catalog integration with Virtual Private Cloud custom images

ISV Partners and IBM Cloud customers can now import custom VPC images directly to their account or enterprise, or sell on the IBM Cloud catalog without depending on Terraform. For more information, see Onboarding a virtual server image for VPC.

29 September 2022

Enabling IBM Cloud Event Notifications for the notification distribution list

You can now easily add Event Notifications instances to the notification distribution list and receive account-wide IBM Cloud notifications. With Event Notifications, you can choose to deliver your notifications to different destinations, including email, SMS, or webhooks. When an event of interest occurs on the IBM Cloud platform and an event is generated, the notification distribution list communicates with a connected Event Notifications instance to forward a notification to the supported destination.

For more information, see Enabling Event Notifications for the notification distribution list.

26 September 2022

Identifying inactive policies

To reduce the number of policies in your account and keep only the minimum access that is necessary for each user, you can now identify the infrequently used access policies on the Inactive policies page in the console. You can determine whether to remove the inactive policies, or in some cases, you might expect an infrequently used policy. For more information, see Managing inactive policies.

Exporting user access reports

Make sure that users have only the access that they need. Export an access policy report for any user in your account to view all of the access policies that they are assigned. For more information, see Exporting user access policy reports.

22 September 2022

A new way to provide IBM Cloud your feedback

We want to hear from you! Let us know about your experience with the IBM Cloud console by submitting your feedback from the Help > Send feedback option in the console menu bar. You can tell us what you love and even what you’d like to see improved, so we can work together to ensure that you always enjoy developing on IBM Cloud.

21 September 2022

Getting help in the console

You can now find the documentation and Support Center help options from a single menu item in the IBM Cloud console menu bar. Check out the new Help option from the console menu bar that now includes your links for Docs, the Support Center, a form to give us feedback, and available guided tours.

16 September 2022

Attaching tags on service IDs

In addition to tagging resources, you can now attach user tags and access management tags on service IDs. User tags help you group service IDs for usage reports, and you can use access management tags to control access to your service IDs. For more information, see Working with tags.

Specifying a user onboarding strategy

If you’re Enabling and connecting your identity provider, you can now specify how you want to onboard users to the account upon first-time login. This way, you can add each user to your account when they log in the first time, add users to your account only if they log in and don't select a trusted profile, or never add users to your account and provide access only by using trusted profiles. For more information about trusted profiles, see Creating trusted profiles.

02 September 2022

Increased policy limit

The shared limit for IAM policies and context-based restrictions has increased from 2010 to 4020 so that you don't need to request an increase to the limit in your account as you grow your organizational capacity. For more information, see Known issues and limitations.

31 August 2022

Choose from dark or light themes in the console

Enjoy a customized experience in the console that matches your preferences. By default, the console uses the mode that you already have set for your device. We'd like you to be able to experience IBM Cloud using a theme of your choosing. Use the Avatar icon from the console menu bar to find the options for changing your theme.

21 July 2022

Monitoring context-based restrictions

To help you predict how context-based restrictions might affect users, applications, and workflows, IBM Cloud is excited to release report-only mode for rules. You can enable context-based restrictions during creation, or choose to set the rule to report-only mode. Using Activity Tracker, you can monitor the impact of enabled rules, or view report-only rules to see how they will affect your users, applications, and workflows without enforcing the rule. For more information, see Monitoring context-based restrictions.

08 July 2022

Streamlined process for updating published support information in Partner Center

You can update support information for your published products by editing your already approved support information and then requesting an approval. After your changes are approved, you can publish the updates. For more information, see Updating your product's support information.

23 June 2022

Onboarding software to sell on IBM Cloud by using the API

To sell your products on IBM Cloud, you can now onboard and publish by using the Partner Center Sell API, in addition to using the Partner Center experience in the console.

22 June 2022

Identify inactive identities

You can create a report in the IBM Cloud console to identify which users, service IDs, trusted profiles, and API keys in your account are inactive. Removing access for inactive identities can reduce the risk of unauthorized access to your IBM Cloud® resources and help you manage access more efficiently. For more information, see Identifying inactive identities.

Updated process for assigning access

Assigning IAM, Classic Infrastructure, and IBM Cloud Foundry access just got more streamlined. When assigning access, each service that you select has an in-context description. You can also find all IAM access policy and access group information for an identity under a single tab. Check out the updated process by assigning access to any user, service ID, or trusted profile.

Assign a policy for All IAM Account Management services

You can now assign an access policy for All IAM Account Management services, which includes the IAM Identity service, IAM Access Management service, IAM User Management service, IAM Access Groups service, and future IAM services. By assigning an access policy for a group of services, you decrease the number of policies in your account and reduce the time and effort to manage access.

13 June 2022

Updated process for onboarding services in Partner Center

Partner Center has made it easier to provide required support information. The process has improved the approval process for publishing your product, and it has added consistency to all third-party product information which helps customers find the help that they need.

For more information, see Defining your support experience.

04 May 2022

Required access to view service credentials

When the credential level access can't be determined by comparing the access of the user and the credential, the credential is redacted. Services that support access control on resources that are allocated in the context of a service instance, such as Cloud Object Storage buckets, now require the user to have the resource-controller.credential.retrieve_all action to view service credentials.

To determine if your service is affected, review your service's documentation. For more information about the required access to view service credentials, see Viewing a credential.

5 April 2022

Onboarding virtual server images for Power Virtual Server

You can now onboard virtual server images for Power Virtual Server to private catalogs and the IBM Cloud catalog. For more information about onboarding to the IBM Cloud, see Registering a virtual server image for Power Systems in IBM Cloud Partner Center. For more information about onboarding to your private catalog, see Onboarding a virtual server image for Power Systems to a private catalog.

Upload translations of your software by using the CLI

You can now download and upload translations of your software by using the CLI. For more information, see Translating product details by using the CLI.

4 April 2022

Adding custom service parameters for your service

If the provisioning process of your product requires additional information from your customers, you can now add custom input fields for your product in IBM Cloud Partner Center. For more information, see Adding custom service parameters for your service in Partner Center.

25 March 2022

Trusted profiles are now members of access groups

You can now add trusted profiles as members of access groups like other IAM identities, such as users and service IDs. For more information, see Creating trusted profiles and Setting up access groups.

1 March 2022

Use feature and subscription codes to create new accounts

When you register for a new IBM Cloud account, you can use a feature code that you received from participating in a special event or a subscription code that you received by email. Instead of verifying your identity by entering your credit card information, click the option to Register with a code to complete the set up of your new account.