Action Required Service Updates
IBM Bluemix Monitoring and Analytics Diagnostics Plan retirement
The IBM Bluemix Monitoring and Analytics Diagnostics Plan will be retired on March 9, 2017. Learn about key migration deadlines here.
Bluemix Lift is becoming a free service
The Bluemix Lift Standard Plan will be made completely free as of March 3, 2017.
Retirement of Bluemix Mobile Quality Assurance
As of March 1, 2017, the service tile will be removed from the Bluemix Public catalog and you will no longer be able to provision new Mobile Quality Assurance instances. However, existing instances will continue to be supported.
Mobile Analytics for Bluemix End of Beta
Mobile Analytics for Bluemix service became generally available (GA) on January 11, 2017, and the Beta service is being retired. If you have Beta instances of Mobile Analytics you should convert the to GA instances as soon as possible.
IBM Watson IoT Platform adds Advanced Security capability and price plan.
IBM is introducing new Advanced Security IoT service capabilities that extend Watson IoT Platform with Threat Intelligence for IoT.
Key Protect Goes From Beta to GA in Dallas
Learn more about the Bluemix Key Protect encryption key management service that went from beta to GA in the Dallas region on the Bluemix Public PaaS.
Watson Discovery – General Availability
Watson Discovery Service is now available. Powered by Watson APIs, it gives developers the fastest path to build cognitive apps that extract value from structured and unstructured data.
Watson IoT Platform Removing Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans
The Watson Internet of Things (IoT) Platform will remove the Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans by December 31, 2017. If you're currently on any of these plans, please take three steps (yes only three!) to change to the Standard Plan.