It is growing so rapidly that revenue from public cloud platforms, business services, and SAAS will grow reaching $236 billion by 2020 according to Forrester*. But why? T

The second wave of adoption will be moving the full software development workflow to the cloud Having your apps and your CD pipeline in the cloud in one integrated platform reduces the need to switch between tools, cuts down on and gives companies a big competitive advantage by enabling rapid agile delivery. We are committed to they are on their cloud journey, which is why we built .

New Features: Pipelines, Git LFS, Smart Mirroring and more

To help both our and customers scale in , today we’re announcing new features focused security, and performance:

our team can build, test, and deploy from Bitbucket. Pipelines built right within Bitbucket, giving you end-to-end visibility from coding to deployment. With Bitbucket there's no CI server to setup, user management to configure, or repositories to synchronize.

Git Large File Storage (LFS) – now out of Beta: Developers using large binary files and rich media can now collaborate on 80+ file types of any size and store all their files in one place. Git LFS stores your large files externally and keeps your actual Git repository lightweight, resulting in faster cloning and fetching times.



Developers using large binary files and rich media can now collaborate on 80+ file types of any size and store all their files in one place. Git LFS stores your large files externally and keeps your actual Git repository lightweight, resulting in faster cloning and fetching times. Bitbucket Data Center on AWS: Companies looking to gradually move their infrastructure to a public cloud can still have the control they desire by hosting Data Center on AWS.

Premium Features- now in a free trial: Some teams require . For them, we’re introducing a new Premium plan that is available for all users as a for a limited time including the following features:

Smart Mirroring – Smart Mirroring can drastically improve read (clone, fetch, pull) performance for distributed teams working with large repositories by making them available locally in your own network.

Smart Mirroring can drastically improve read (clone, fetch, pull) performance for distributed teams working with large repositories by making them available locally in your own network. Merge checks – To help customize your workflow, you can set checks to control when a pull request can be merged. You can set checks like requiring a minimum number of approvals, requiring tasks to be resolved, enforcing a minimum number of successful builds, and more.

Security and reliability improvements in Bitbucket Cloud

Source code in the cloud used to be unthinkable due to security and reliability concerns, but the momentum has shifted. . Bitbucket has seen a massive trend in this direction with a 142% compounded annual growth rate over the last 3 years among professional software teams moving their source code to the cloud.

, improving monitoring and alerting, reconfiguring internal and external network and revised database queries and configurations. We’re proud to see these investments paying off with 99.98% uptime in June, 100% in July, 99.98% in August, and 99.98% in September.

We’ve also launched a slew of security updates over the last year to ensure your company’s most precious asset is safe.

Pay only for what you need with per user pricing

Most companies use so they can scale easily in the cloud and pay only for what they use. In our current model, unless you have exactly 10, 25, 50 or 100 users, you can end up paying for seats you don’t use. In the new pricing model (price-per-user) you only pay for the users who are actually part of your team. The Standard plan includes the Bitbucket you love at $2/user/month. The Premium plan at $5/user/month is for teams that require granular admin controls, security and auditing. Bitbucket Cloud will still be free for small teams of up to 5 users. More details can be .

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At Bitbucket, we invest heavily in both our cloud and platforms so we can meet teams they are, whether hosting their source code using Bitbucket Server behind the firewall or in the public cloud,

We hope you enjoy Bitbucket’s new

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*The Public Cloud Services Market Will Grow Rapidly To $236 Billion In 2020, a September 2016 Forrester report

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