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

Release Notes:  Property Manager

New Features:

• Create Property Page. We will be rolling out a redesigned Create Property page in the next few days. Functionality remains largely the same, but the look and feel is different. We’re introducing a new guided setup wizard that will replace Onboard and Configuration Assistant (OCA). See this Community blog post for details.

Updated Features:

• Caching. Adds Cache-Control extended RFC support, including s-maxage.
• Brotli Support. This Property Manager behavior is now available for customer self service. No longer restricted.
• CDN Network.  This Property Manager condition is now available for customer self service. No longer restricted.
• Variable Support for AK_REFERENCE_ID. You can now reference the built-in AK_REFERENCE_ID variable wherever you use Property Manager variables. For example, AK_REFERENCE_ID can be passed as a query string in failover redirects to identify the error condition that triggered the failover.

Bug Fixes:

• Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Firewall Rules Notification Application Enhancements

The latest update to the Firewall Rules Notification application allows account admin users to view and manage all subscriptions in their account right from the ‘Manage Subscriptions’ tab.

Additionally, the API for Firewall Rules Notification at developer.akamai.com now returns information about the user who created a subscription. A new PATCH operation allows to add and remove sets of subscriptions.

DataStream is more flexible and stable now!

• You can leverage a new DataStream Configuration API that lets you create and manage stream configurations.
• The DataStream Pull API is no longer enabled by default. You can configure the Pull API for a stream by adding a DataStream buffer as a destination. It lets you store log data for up to 12 hours and fetch it with the Pull API. 
• Bug fixes.  

We are pleased to announce the following updates to Reporting:

Reporting Landing Page

Landing page for Reporting - A new Pulsar UI app that aggregates the high level reporting information about the reports that were launched.

Now you can access all of your available reports and common services (such as Billing, Alerts) from the Reporting Overview page. The reports are grouped under the following categories: Cross-Product, Web Performance, Media Delivery and Media Security. You can filter some reports by metrics and dimensions (for example, Country or Response Code).

Reporting Home Page Card

We added a Reporting card to the home page in Akamai Control Center, which offers a quick view into your Today’s Traffic metrics: edge, origin and midgress hits, and offload. The card links to the full Today’s Traffic report and to the new Reporting Overview page.

Identity and Access Management Application Enhancements

Enhancements include:

• Permission descriptions and permission names appear on the Create a new role screen. Permission descriptions are also available in Akamai APIs.
• More information is available for some Identity and Access Management events.
• Bug fixes.

Identity and Access Management Application Enhancements

Enhancements include:

• Permission descriptions and permission names appear on the Create a new role screen. Permission descriptions are also available in Akamai APIs.
• More information is available for some Identity and Access Management events.
• Bug fixes.