The latest release for the Test Center includes:

• The Create test cases based on config version feature. Users can now create test cases much easier and faster. By clicking behaviors in the property’s rule tree, Test Center autogenerates conditions.
• Optimization of test runs executions. Enhanced parallel execution of jobs and implemented bug fixes improve the overall test run time.
• Usability enhancements and bug fixes.

Release Notes: DataStream 2

New features:

• Upload failure alerts. DataStream 2 now allows you to configure alerts and get notifications when log files fail to upload to your destinations. This feature is available to you via the Akamai Alerts application. See Setting up alerts for details.
• Dynamic time prefixing. Now you can sort log files streamed to your selected destinations by date and time. Configure folder paths and filename prefixes with dynamic time variables and combine them with static values. See Dynamic time variables for details.
• New data fields. DataStream 2 supports logging new data set fields, including SSL version, SSL overhead time, Object size, Uncompressed size, Max age, Overhead bytes, and DNS lookup time. See the Data set parameters list.

Enhancement: 

DataStream 2 UI now features an improved confirmation screen, helping you configure the DataStream behavior in the Property Manager application before starting to stream logs.

Identity and Access Management Application and API Enhancements

Enhancements include:

• The IP Whitelist feature was renamed to IP Allowlist in the Identity and Access Management application.
• The Identity Management: IP Whitelist API v1 was deprecated. The Identity Management: IP Allowlist API v2 is now available for migration. Customers should consider migrating to v2 at their earliest convenience.
• Admins can prompt users for additional authentication via email in case of a suspicious login. This option is available on the Settings tab in the Identity and Access Management application.
• The Identity Management: User Administration API v2 includes a new object member  that lets you clone an existing user’s role assignments when creating a user. 
• The Security Passphrase and SMS Contact Information was removed from the Identity and Access Management application and relocated to /apps/authorized-contacts/ in Control Center.
• A new Terraform sub-provider for user management.
• Minor bug fixes.

The latest release for the Support homepage includes:

• On December 31, 2020, we removed links to certain applications and resources.  Use the main Control Center menu to access Download Center, Diagnostic Tools, Akamai Community, and Akamai University.
  View training videos in the Download Center, and read documentation and release notes at learn.akamai.com. 

Reporting now includes two new reports:

API Usage report

This Akamai APIs usage report allows account’s administrators to track endpoints requests and volume per client owner, per endpoint in time for the last 92 days (data collection started on 24 Oct 2020). Both UI and API versions of the report offer filtering possibilities such as time range, status code, endpoint, and client owner.

API Usage Details report

This detailed audit report on Akamai APIs usage allows account’s administrators to track individual calls including timestamp, details for data requestor, request URI, and status code for response for the last 92 days (data collection started on 24 Oct 2020). Both UI and API versions of the report offer filtering possibilities such as time range, URI content, status code, endpoint, http method, and client owner.

GCP Cloud Interconnects Beta

New features:

• Cloud Interconnects. A new Property Manager behavior that lets you maximize egress discounts for Google Cloud origins. It’s available through the beta channel for Ion Standard, Ion Premier, and DSA.

• New report (Cloud Interconnects) under Traffic reports. It lets you check value confirmation for the utilization of Cloud Interconnects. A new report isn’t yet universally available in the beta phase. Contact dl-cumulus-relations@akamai.com with the following information to set it up:

  • Property Manager account/property name
  • List of CP codes that have Cloud Interconnect enabled
  • List of Google origin server domains (or IP addresses) that have Cloud Interconnect enabled

• If the rule format for a property is set prior to 2020–11–02, update it to the latest version to access Cloud Interconnects. See Freeze a rule tree’s feature set for more information.

GCP Cloud Interconnects Beta

New features:

• Cloud Interconnects. A new Property Manager behavior that lets you maximize egress discounts for Google Cloud origins. It’s available through the beta channel for Ion Standard, Ion Premier, and DSA.

• New report (Cloud Interconnects) under Traffic reports. It lets you check value confirmation for the utilization of Cloud Interconnects. A new report isn’t yet universally available in the beta phase. Contact dl-cumulus-relations@akamai.com with the following information to set it up:

  • Property Manager account/property name 
  • List of CP codes that have Cloud Interconnect enabled
  • List of Google origin server domains (or IP addresses) that have Cloud Interconnect enabled

• If the rule format for a property is set prior to 2020–11–02, update it to the latest version to access Cloud Interconnects. See Freeze a rule tree’s feature set for more information.

The latest release of Billing includes a new feature called Scheduled Reports. It is an updated version of Recurring Reports known from Billing Center. For more information, click the Help link in the application.

The Billing application is in the BETA version and it’s not final. We constantly work on the improvements before the release of the final version.

With the latest release for Test Center you can now:

• View functional test cases grouped by test requests, conditions, or client profiles.
• Simultaneously edit multiple functional test cases grouped by a test requests, conditions, or client profiles.

Configure single sign-on (SSO) with SAML identity provider (IDP) servers as visible or invisible on the login page

With this enhancement, SSO administrators can:

• Allow visibility of a selected IDP to all users in their account
• Limit visibility of a selected IDP to a subset of users in their account 
• Temporarily hide a selected IDP from all users in their account except a few to test the results