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Each week, the CMS Hybrid Cloud program provides a list of upcoming changes, maintenance windows, and updates to help customers build awareness and plan effectively and summarizes changes from the previous week.
This newsletter includes:
Completed change summary for the week of 2/5/2026
- 2/6/2026 - Change the Universal Forwarder to Forward the data to Heavy Forwarder
- 2/8/2026 - Marketplace SSM Patching - Prod
To learn details about previous changes please go to the News and Updates section on cloud.cms.gov. (Secure Access required)
For Patching and Gold Image release schedule please view: Patching and Gold Image Release Calendar - 2026
2/14/2026 - DevOps Services Maintenance
Summary:
CMS Hybrid Cloud will be performing maintenance updates on its DevOps tools.
Actions we are taking:
- Cloudbees Jenkins prod and Gov Cloud prod activities:
- Upgrade the EKS Control Plane to version 1.34
- Upgrade the Node group AMI to the latest AMI release from SecOps
- Upgrade the EKS Add-ons to the latest version
- Upgrade the Helm releases for Cloudbees Core, and all Cluster Operations tools
- SonarQube activities:
- Upgrade SonarQube version to 2025.6.1.117629
- Upgrade the Node AMI to the latest AMI release from SecOps
- JFrog activities:
- Upgrade the EKS Control Plane to version 1.34
- Upgrade the Node group AMI to the latest AMI release from SecOps
- Upgrade the EKS Add-ons to the latest version
- Upgrade the Helm releases for Artifactory, Xray, Snyk Broker, and all Cluster Operations tools
When is this happening?
Start Time: Saturday, 2/14/2026 at 09:00 p.m. ET
End Time: Sunday, 2/15/2026 at 1:00 a.m. ET
Who will be impacted?
All AWS Commercial and GovCloud customers of SonarQube, CloudBees, JFrog.
What is the impact?
Customers should expect a short downtime for each service as instances are restarted within the maintenance window.
2/18/2026 - Azure Update Manager Patching - DEV/TEST/IMPL
Summary:
As part of our normal patching, the CMS Hybrid Cloud team will apply the latest Windows and Linux patches on Wednesday, 2/18/2026 at 6:00 p.m. ET. The week's patches will impact the DEV/TEST/IMPL environment for the affected MAG applications noted below.
Actions we are taking:
- MAG DEV/TEST/IMPL
- MAG Linux & Windows Vulnerability Patching
When is this happening?
Start Time: Wednesday, 2/18/2026 at 6:00 p.m. ET
End Time: Wednesday, 2/18/2026 at 11:00 p.m. ET
Who will be impacted?
Subscription:
CMS.VDC-CCS.IUSG.SharedServices.001.AG
ScopeInfoTech-CM-HEDIS PLD-005
Resource Group with Reboot:
RG-SS-LDAP-PROXY-DEV
RG-SS-LDAP-PROXY-VAL
Resource Group with No Reboot:
RG-AZE-HEDISPLD-DEV
RG-AZE-HEDISPLD-VAL
What is the impact?
Patches will be transmitted to the affected areas. For some customers, reboots may occur depending upon the tags applied.
2/18/2026 - Non-Marketplace SSM Patching - DEV/TEST/IMPL
Summary:
As part of our normal patching, the CMS Hybrid Cloud team will apply the latest Windows and Linux patches on Wednesday, 2/18/2026 at 6:00 p.m. ET. The week's patches will impact the DEV/TEST/IMPL environment for the affected Non-Marketplace applications noted below.
Actions we are taking:
- Non-Marketplace DEV/TEST
- SSM Linux & Windows Vulnerability Patching
When is this happening?
Start Time: Wednesday, 2/18/2026 at 6:00 p.m. ET
End Time: Wednesday, 2/18/2026 at 11:00 p.m. ET
Who will be impacted?
CEDAR, Million Hearts, FFSDCS, RASS, OC Base- eLDAP, SC CLIA, NTP LMS, Spott MACBIS, MDP, OC Base- WNMG, NEIL/HRES, OC Base- EWST, MacFin, eAPD Hi-C, OC Base- CMS Cloud Legacy, OC Base- DevSecOps SecDevOps, iServ, MDP, PECOS2.0, SEI, OC Base- PWSS, TRA, CMS ARTS, MCIM, RAD Analysis Tools, MCIM, Perm, CMS Cloud - CRE, CMS Cloud - Enterprise Agile Tools, CMS Cloud tamer, CMS Cloud - CARD, CMS Cloud - ECS Fargate, CMS Cloud - Direct Connect, CMS Cloud - Jfrog SonarCube, CMS Cloud - DNS Prod, CMS Cloud - SRE, CMS Cloud - Governance 2.0, MEOWx, CMS Cloud - CloudBees Jenkins, CMS Cloud - CET, CMS Cloud - DevSecOps, CMS Cloud - Utilities, CMS Cloud - Testrail, CMS Cloud - CircleCI, CMS Cloud - Sam GSS Security GovCloud, SWIFT, AWS HEIDI, MDX, MSPSC, QMAC
MEPBS, EACMS, MacPro, PS&R, RDS, OC Base- APIM GEO, 1115 PMDA, CMS Cloud - Governance 2.0, CMS Cloud - QuickDNS, CMS Cloud - CMSNet, CMS Cloud - CCG Web Content, CMS Cloud - Network Arch, CMS Cloud - VPC Automation, CMS Cloud - Security Team, CMS Cloud - CCG Web Content, CMS Cloud Temporal, CMS Cloud - Splunk, CMS Cloud - CET, AWS GSS Security GC, occonfluence, ocjira, miniorange, ocsonarqube, MTF-PM, NDW, MacFin, MTF-DM, PECOS-OM
What is the impact?
Patches will be applied to the affected areas and reboots where tags are applied.
2/18/2026 - Marketplace SSM Patching - DEV
Summary:
As part of our normal patching, the CMS Hybrid Cloud team will apply the latest Windows and Linux patches on Wednesday, 2/18/2026 at 6:00 p.m. ET. The week's patches will impact the DEV/TEST environment for the affected Marketplace applications noted below.
Actions we are taking:
- Marketplace DEV/TEST
- SSM Linux & Windows Vulnerability Patching
When is this happening?
Start Time: Wednesday, 2/18/2026 at 6:00 p.m. ET
End Time: Wednesday, 2/18/2026 at 11:00 p.m. ET
Who will be impacted?
FFM_Opera, FFM_QAO XES - CyberArk, VAMS, TWS, XES - XOC Tools, SERVIS, FFM_Shared_Services, FFM MLMS, XES - MSI Tech Lab, FFM_FM, FFM_TWS, XES - Service Virtualization, CMS Cloud - Advanced Monitoring
DSRS, FFM, FFM DSH, FFM EDI, FFM EFT, FFM ESDCU, MCR, FLH, OC Base- FLH, OC Base PET, FFM_MNPS
What is the impact?
Patches will be applied to the affected areas, reboots may take places where tags are applied.
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