All the Platform Improvements We’ve Made in 2021 to Make CIOs Lives Easier

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This post details several platform improvements made in 2021 relevant to account access management and security. Key contributions include: 1. Streamlined SSO onboarding by leveraging SaaS Applications in Cloudflare Access for easier setup and management within the Cloudflare for Teams dashboard. 2. Introduction of a beta program for Zone Scoped Roles, allowing users to be granted access to a subset of zones within an account, enabling finer-grained edit/read-only permissions. 3. Significant enhancements to Terraform support, including the addition of 10 new resources (bringing the total to 51), support for the ruleset engine (Transform Rules, Managed WAF Rulesets, Managed DDoS Rulesets), and a major update to cf-terraforming for generating Terraform configurations. 4. Improvements to Notifications and Alerts, including new notification types (DDoS Alerts, Firewall Alerts, Workers CPU, Origin 5XX Errors) and new webhook destinations (DataDog, Discord, OpsGenie, Splunk), along with API support for Alert History. 5. Expansion of logging capabilities to include Firewall Events, Gateway, Spectrum, and Audit logs, with support for S3-compatible storage and integrations with analytics providers, including R2.