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Welcome to the new Product Release Notes section in Community - your central destination for staying up to date on newly released Equinix product capabilities, enhancements, and expansions. The Product Release Notes section is designed to help you quickly understand what’s new across our portfolio, why it matters, and how new capabilities can help you solve business and technical challenges. As innovations move from roadmap to delivery, you’ll find a range of content here, including: New product introductions Feature enhancements Product and market expansions Our goal is to create a single, easy-to-navigate destination that helps you stay informed about the latest innovations across Equinix. We encourage you to: Subscribe to this page to receive updates Leave comments and questions for product teams We’re excited to launch this new resource and look forward to continuing to expand it with new content over time.
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Hi,We're looking at using Equinix Internet Access and would like to enable BFD for faster failure detection but it isn't currently supported. Can we request this feature be added please.
How do I connect my organization’s AWS account to Equinix. What information and steps are required from our side?
Fabric now supports 100G virtual connections in Miami, enabling higher-capacity connectivity for customers in this metro.What’s New:100G virtual connections now available in Miami Increases maximum bandwidth capacity for Fabric in this locationWhy it Matters:Enables high-throughput, performance-sensitive workloads with fewer connections Benefits customers in or connecting through Miami needing greater bandwidthLearn More:Equinix Fabric Release Notes | Equinix Product Documentation
Equinix Managed Solutions has expanded into Los Angeles, bringing managed solutions availability to the US West Coast.What’s New:Equinix Managed Solutions now available in Los AngelesWhy it Matters:Extends managed solutions availability to customers on the U.S. West CoastLearn MoreManaged IT Services for the Managed Data Center | Equinix
The Challenge:Customers in regulated industries must prove that sensitive traffic stays within specific jurisdictions – not just where data is stored, but where packets travel. For teams running virtual network services on Network Edge, this has meant relying on approaches that lack deterministic routing control or fine-grained egress enforcement, forcing trade-offs between performance and compliance.A Better Approach:Fabric Geo Zones now extends to Network Edge connections, enabling customers to apply geographic boundaries directly to Network Edge ports:Keeps Fabric network traffic within defined sovereign boundaries for Network Edge ports Allows additional endpoints to operate within geo-defined data zones Extends policy-based, jurisdiction-constrained routing to virtual network services at the edge – without adding routing complexityWhen to Use This:When deploying Network Edge services that must stay within sovereign or compliance-defined geographic boundaries When extending data so
Fabric now includes a native Insights Hub dashboard in the Fabric Portal, giving customers real-time, unified visibility into network performance and health without relying on external tools or customer integrations.What’s New:Native events and alerts dashboard now available directly in the Fabric PortalWhy it Matters:Network and operations teams can monitor, troubleshoot, and understand their Fabric environment faster – without needing to build or maintain custom integrations Reduces dependence on external observability tools by bringing network health visibility natively into FabricLearn More:Docs Fabric Insights Demo Fabric Intelligence Whitepaper Omdia Analyst Paper
What’s New: EMS Managed Private Storage Block/File Summary:EMS Managed Private Storage Block/File 1.1 expands managed private storage with Network Attached Storage (NAS) and block modalities, along with built-in replication to improve performance, resiliency, and data protection. What’s New:Expanded managed private storage to include NAS and block modalities Added built-in replication capabilities Enhancements aimed at improving performance, resiliency, and data protectionWhy it Matters: Provides improved performance, resiliency, and data protection for storage workloads Benefits customers leveraging managed private storage who require enhanced storage capabilitiesLearn MoreManaged Private Storage
Summary:Network Edge has expanded into Johannesburg, giving customers in South Africa a closer deployment option for virtual network services. What’s New:Network Edge now available in Johannesburg, South Africa Why it Matters: Reduces latency for customers deploying virtual network services closer to end users in South Africa Supports regional deployment consistency for organizations with infrastructure or compliance requirements tied to South Africa Learn MoreNetwork Edge technical documentation
Is there a catalog of cross-connect service providers available for each Equinix location? I would like to find out if Equinix offers cross-connect capability with the Bloomberg IGN network from Ashburn and Chicago locations.
The Challenge: As organizations scale across regions and clouds, ensuring that sensitive data stays within specific geographic or jurisdictional boundaries becomes increasingly complex. Today, teams often struggle to:Prove that data-in-motion stays within required jurisdictions (not just where it’s stored) Enforce deterministic routing paths across multicloud and partner ecosystems Meet regulatory requirements like GDPR, DORA, or healthcare and government policies Existing approaches often rely on public internet routing, cloud provider backbones, or custom-built architecture that could lack control, forcing tradeoffs between performance, compliance, and operational complexity. A Better Approach: Fabric Geo Zones (Preview) introduces a new way to define and validate geographic traffic boundaries directly within Equinix Fabric. Enables policy-based, jurisdiction-constrained routing (e.g., USA-only, EU-only) Introduces Network Zones to control how and where traffic flows Provides
We’re rolling out a major update designed to give you more control, deeper visibility, and fewer infrastructure headaches. We’ve officially added a dedicated 30 GB local logging storage allocation directly to your Fortinet (FTNT) firewalls. This means your device now has a massive, built-in buffer to retain traffic logs, threat logs, event logs, and policy violation records completely on-device.Fortinet Virtual FirewallWhy this matters for you?If you've ever had to hunt down a network issue or investigate a security alert, you know that getting to your logs quickly is everything. In the past, relying solely on external syslog servers or SIEM forwarding could sometimes mean dealing with latency, complex setups, or even temporary gaps in data.By bringing 30 GB of storage directly to the firewall, we're eliminating those hurdles.What you get:Instant Troubleshooting: Access historical log data right from the device the second you need it. No more waiting on external queries. Sharper Forens
1.0 SECURE ENTERPRISE DISTRIBUTED AI HUBArtificial intelligence has rapidly evolved from an emerging capability to a core component of modern digital ecosystems. As organizations deploy generative AI, machine learning models, and autonomous decision-making AI agents, they face an expanding set of security challenges that differ fundamentally from traditional cybersecurity risks. AI agents are highly dynamic, data-driven, and nondeterministic, which introduces new attack surfaces and vulnerabilities that conventional security frameworks were not designed to address.At the same time, AI has become a powerful tool for defenders, enhancing threat detection, automating incident response, and improving cloud security posture. However, malicious actors are also exploiting AI to scale cyberattacks through techniques like deepfakes, automated phishing, prompt injection, goal hijacking, and model poisoning. This dual-use nature of AI underscores the urgent need for organizations to adopt integra
Hey — Ed here 👋Quick question: tired of wrestling with jittery VPNs over the public internet for your hybrid multicloud? Me too. In this short Tech Talk, Ted and I walk through a real-world playbook that ditched public-VPN pain and delivered a global enterprise with predictable, low-latency connectivity via private interconnection. Why it works (TL;DR):Private connectivity (not VPN over internet) = consistent latency and no jitter Colocation = cloud-adjacent performance for latency-sensitive apps like SAP Equinix Fabric + Fabric Cloud Router = multi-cloud routing at scale (10–50Gbps+) Real result: one customer self-deployed FCR in 2 weeks — zero dramaWant the reference design? Download it hereTell me — what’s the biggest networking headache you’re trying to solve right now? Drop a comment or reply — I read them all.— Ed
I received several helpful replies to my question — how can I mark one of them as the Best Answer so others know which solution worked?
I am trying to find out how to ask a question or post a discussion, what are the steps to do this?
Hi, would it be possible to look into whether its feasible to email the Ordering Contact and any other notification contacts when a visitor signs in on site via a Work Visit. It would be handy to know that the visitor has arrived on site and signed in successfully.Thanks,Matt
At the Equinix Community, your voice is the engine behind our innovation. Whether it’s a tweak to the ECP portal or a brand -new feature request, we want to hear it. To make it easier for you to track your suggestions, we’ve streamlined our idea status updates into three simple stages.The Journey of Your IdeaWe’ve simplified our tracking, so you know exactly where your idea stands:Open: This is the starting line. Your idea has been posted, or we’ve reached out because we need more information. Every great feature starts here! In Progress: Your idea has caught our eye. We are currently reviewing, investigating, or have officially accepted it into our development plans. Resolved: The finish line! This means your idea has been delivered, already exists in the platform, or has been noted for future consideration.How to Submit Your IdeaReady to share? Follow these quick steps to get your idea in front of our product teams:Navigate: Click on the Ideas tab in the top navigation bar. Search Fi
Would it be possible to get a discussion channel for some of the commerce ecosystems that exist in Equinix similar to how there are discussions for products? (e.g. Payments and Baking, Capital Markets and Trading, Health Care and Life Sciences, Connected Vehicles/Smart Transportation) Would love to drive some of our customers here for this purpose.
Hi, Is it possible that a developer enable or add the option to upload a Cover/Background photo in the gray rectangle area as shown in the snapshot on Equinix Marketplace website so every customer/client can use/upload their company photo if they wish to?Thanks, Equinix Marketplace
Hi, It seems only the person raising a smart hands or trouble ticket can amend that ticket. It would be extremely helpful if others with the appropriately assigned permissions would be able to reply to comments left by Equinix on these tickets. All too often the person who raised the ticket is off shift and we cannot update the ticket so end up having to email GSD to sort it. Thanks, Glenn
The ability to create user generated port labels would be amazing. This way I can more easily determine which one goes to which datacenter on our side. You can leave the current label in the port properties so it can be referred to when putting a ticket in, but the current naming convention is difficult to correlate which port is for which of our circuits going to which datacenter. Thanks!
Hi,I would like to have the possibility to manage my Purchase Orders on the portal:Editing descriptionAdding Start/End datesLocationAnd more importantly, being able to flag a PO as expired. Today all the PO appear as Active even if the End date is passed.Thanks,Alain
Hello, I was told it was removed previously, but I would really like the ability to CRUDD Colocation Administration/Users from the Equinix API. The Equinix API is great for many things, unfortunately, this is the biggest one I would use it for. To put some context around this, I have 7 different colocation vendors that I manage operational tickets, work visits and user access for. I would really like the ability to at least centralize some of these functions to my own application, and a proper API endpoint for this specific functionality would allow us to onboard and offboard users much easier and more effectively. Another option may be for Equinix to move its colocation identity management to it's customer facing IAM solution, which I believe already has public facing API endpoints.Thank you.
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