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Cloud Services news and major change announcements

Cloud VPS 2021 Purge: We are asking project members to claim their active Cloud VPS projects and also explicitly tell us about projects that are no longer needed.
Database as a Service in Cloud VPS: Horizon now provides a web interface for creating and managing database servers, databases, and database users.

Wiki Replicas 2020 Redesign: Wiki Replicas' architecture is being redesigned for stability and performance. Cross database JOINs will not be available and a connection will only allow querying its associated DB.
HTTPS enforcement at shared proxy: TLS encryption enforced via redirect at domain proxy service
Cloud VPS 2020 Purge: We are asking project members to claim their active Cloud VPS projects and also explicitly tell us about projects that are no longer needed.
Phasing out the .wmflabs domain: New instances created in Cloud VPS projects will only be in DNS as <host>.<project>.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
2020 PAWS migration: New domain names for the PAWS hub and paws-public and a new Kubernetes cluster underneath
Toolforge.org hostname migration for Toolforge: tools.wmflabs.org/$TOOL is being replaced with $TOOL.toolforge.org for all Toolforge hosted webservices
Jessie deprecation: Remove support for Debian Jessie prior to upstream End Of Life for release

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 == Current announcements ==
-; [[/Cloud VPS 2020 Purge|Cloud VPS 2020 Purge]]
+; [[/Cloud VPS 2021 Purge|Cloud VPS 2021 Purge]]
 : We are asking project members to claim their active Cloud VPS projects and also explicitly tell us about projects that are no longer needed.
+; [[Help:Adding_a_Database_to_a_Cloud_VPS_Project|Database as a Service in Cloud VPS]]
+: Horizon now provides a web interface for creating and managing database servers, databases, and database users.
+== Recently completed ==
+; [[/Wiki_Replicas_2020_Redesign|Wiki Replicas 2020 Redesign]]
+: Wiki Replicas' architecture is being redesigned for stability and performance. ''Cross database JOINs'' will not be available and a connection will only allow querying its associated DB.
 ; [[/HTTPS enforcement at shared proxy|HTTPS enforcement at shared proxy]]
 : TLS encryption enforced via redirect at domain proxy service
+; [[/Cloud VPS 2020 Purge|Cloud VPS 2020 Purge]]
-== Recently completed ==
+: We are asking project members to claim their active Cloud VPS projects and also explicitly tell us about projects that are no longer needed.
+; [[/Phasing out the .wmflabs domain|Phasing out the .wmflabs domain]]
+: New instances created in Cloud VPS projects will only be in DNS as ''<host>.<project>.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud''
 ; [[/2020 PAWS migration|2020 PAWS migration]]
 : New domain names for the PAWS hub and paws-public and a new Kubernetes cluster underneath