Atlassian: Cloud Changes from August 2024

The latest Atlassian Cloud update contains a number of exciting new features that will make your work in the Atlassian Cloud even more flexible and secure. These changes affect both the administration and use of your Atlassian products. New options are also available to optimize your workflows.

Secure your Atlassian products with IP whitelisting

With IP Whitelisting, you can restrict access to your Jira, Confluence and Atlassian Analytics instances. This feature is available to customers with a Premium (Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence) or Enterprise plan (Atlassian Analytics).

This can be used with the following products:

• Confluence: Areas, pages, administration

• Jira: Issues, projects, administration

• Jira Service Management: customer and agent portals

• Atlassian Analytics

Only IP addresses on the whitelist have access. Users without authorization receive a warning message and cannot access the content via the API.

Read more about how to specify IP addresses for access to a product.

Custom domains for Jira and Confluence

After more than 13 years, it is now possible to use custom domains for Confluence and Jira products. With this new feature, you can manually define individual subdomains and are not limited to an ".atlassian.net" address. This gives you maximum flexibility when designing your URLs.

To create a custom domain, you now select the desired Jira product directly from the drop-down menu, making the process more intuitive.

Read more about how to customize the URL for a product.

Targeted transfer of Spaces and associated users

When transferring data from one Confluence Cloud instance to another, you have the option to move individual Spaces and only the users active in those Spaces.

This means that when adding or restructuring teams, you can transfer only the required Spaces and the corresponding users instead of moving all users. This allows you to copy data in smaller units, over multiple phases or more quickly and with minimal downtime.

More efficient copying to your sandbox

Previously, when copying to the sandbox, the entire instance had to be copied, even if only part of it was relevant. This cost time and resources.

Now you can only select the projects and areas that you really need. This makes the copying process faster and more efficient.

Read more about how to copy data to your sandbox.

New export control rules for sensitive Confluence areas and Jira projects

It is now possible to prevent the export of content from particularly sensitive Confluence areas and Jira projects using so-called data export rules. The same applies to the export of issues from the entire Jira site.

With Atlassian's data security policies, you can set rules to control how users, apps and external people can interact with content such as Confluence areas and Jira issues.

Data export rules require Atlassian Access, which is now part of Atlassian Guard.

Summarized notifications for more efficient communication

Define when you want to receive notifications about activities on a topic. All notifications on this topic are then summarized in a single e-mail. You can also set the frequency of these emails.

Seamless cloud-to-cloud migration in Jira

Cloud-to-cloud migration makes it easy to move users and projects between different cloud sites in Jira. Projects and data can be seamlessly transferred to another Jira site.

With this function, data can be...

• combined in multiple cloud sites,

• split a cloud site into several sites,

• duplicate a cloud site

• or transfer specific projects from one cloud site to another.

To access this function, you must be logged in as an organization or site administrator on both the original site and the target site.

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