SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2026, 03:05 (PST)
- Atlassian rolled out a guided data transfer tool, making it possible to shift Jira and Confluence from its commercial cloud environment over to Government Cloud.
- Admins picked up new tools for setting user sign-in duration under Government Cloud authentication policies.
- These changes come just before the March 30 deadline for new customers looking to purchase Data Center subscriptions and apps.
Atlassian (TEAM.O) introduced a guided migration flow, giving eligible admins the ability to move data from Jira and Confluence sites in its commercial cloud into Atlassian Government Cloud, according to the latest cloud release notes. The company also updated Government Cloud sign-in policies; now admins can configure idle-session and session-expiration limits, unlocking options beyond the previous fixed 24-hour window. Atlassian Documentation
Atlassian is getting stricter with its self-managed “Data Center” products. The company says that as of March 30, 2026 at 23:59 PST, new customers won’t be able to buy fresh Data Center subscriptions or Marketplace Data Center apps. Support for these on-premise offerings—including Jira, Confluence and Bamboo—will taper off in phases, hitting full end-of-life on March 28, 2029. Atlassian
Compliance takes center stage for U.S. government agencies and their contractors weighing migration options. Atlassian, in a March 2025 statement, said its Government Cloud secured FedRAMP Moderate authorization—a key U.S. benchmark for cloud security vetting. Chief technology officer Rajeev Rajan described the authorization as “a major milestone” in the company’s release. Business Wire
Atlassian left the eligibility criteria for its new guided transfer flow out of the release notes, only saying this initial version does a full data copy with step-by-step validation. Migrations tend to bog down at this “lift-and-check” stage, particularly when audit teams demand proof instead of promises.
The move highlights just how packed the regulated workload space has become. ServiceNow, Microsoft, and others all chase the same pool of IT spending. For government customers, vendors that can make security feel routine and reliable usually win out.
Atlassian shares traded at $78.38, marking a roughly 6% gain from the previous close.
Atlassian bumped up its fiscal 2026 revenue growth outlook to 22% from the previous 20.8% in early February, following a quarterly revenue print of $1.59 billion. CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes flagged a milestone: the company’s first quarter with $1 billion in cloud revenue. Reuters
Atlassian’s changes to Government Cloud come as part of a wider overhaul of admin controls across the platform, touching everything from sign-in protocols to how data gets managed. For bigger clients, shifting tickets and pages is rarely the sticking point; it’s the tangle of integrations and third-party apps running in parallel that usually complicates things.
Still, things don’t always go as planned. For customers juggling complex deployments, “full copy” migrations often just kick off the process. Government schedules for higher-clearance environments can drag, so some teams wind up stuck on legacy systems past their original timeline.
