Advanced Announcements now Runs on Atlassian

When we first launched Advanced Announcements our mission was simple: give Jira and Confluence admins a straightforward way to broadcast the right message to the right people at the right moment. Today, we’re raising the bar on trust and security – because the app now proudly carries the Runs on Atlassian badge.

What Runs on Atlassian means in plain English

The badge is Atlassian’s new, program‑verified signal that an app is hosted 100 % inside Atlassian’s cloud platform (Forge), with no default data egress and native data‑residency support. In other words: your information never leaves the same secure infrastructure that powers Jira, Confluence and the rest of the Atlassian suite.

Why this matters when you’re scheduling notifications in Jira

Announcements often carry highly sensitive information – think security vulnerability warnings, workers‑council–approved policy changes, or confidential HR notices that must remain strictly internal. Because Advanced Announcements now Runs on Atlassian, every bit of that data stays inside Atlassian’s cloud boundary, eliminating even the theoretical risk of external storage or exposure and sparing admins from extra vendor assessments. With that foundation in place, you can:

• Publish confidently: messages and audience filters stay inside Atlassian’s boundary; they’re never routed through vendor‑owned servers.

• Meet regional rules automatically: the data your announcements generate inherits the data‑residency setting you’ve already chosen for Jira or Confluence.

• Simplify security reviews: many enterprise questionnaires about hosting location and data flow are answered in one line – “The app Runs on Atlassian.”

How we built zero‑egress, pixel by pixel

Product Owner’s take: “Yes, getting the badge was a real engineering puzzle. Forge enforces zero data egress – not even a stray font, icon or analytics script is allowed. One mis‑typed link to a CDN and you’re out.”

Here’s what that meant in practice.

We rebuilt every screen with Atlassian’s native Forge UI components, ditching third‑party libraries that might fetch assets from the open web. Every icon, font and image is bundled locally, so the app never reaches outside for resources. We locked down the manifest by stripping out every external.* declaration. Finally, we wired up continuous linting and tests that fail the build the moment someone re‑introduces an outbound call.

The payoff is simple: when you install Advanced Announcements, nothing – not a byte of content or metadata – leaves Atlassian’s cloud.

Good news for Solution Partners, too

If you’re advising clients on Marketplace apps, Runs on Atlassian removes guesswork. You can filter for the badge, know the app is Forge‑hosted and avoid lengthy trust discussions. It also gives you a concrete, Atlassian‑verified selling point with enterprise accounts: security and compliance teams can tick off hosting‑location and data‑flow requirements in seconds, so deals move forward instead of stalling in procurement. That means fewer back‑and‑forth cycles on questionnaires and more time to focus on delivering value – and billable work.

Ready to try it?

You can install Advanced Announcements from the Atlassian Marketplace in minutes, and every new site gets a 30‑day free trial: Grab the app and start broadcasting smarter, safer announcements today.

Questions or feedback? Drop us a line in our support portal – we’d love to hear from you!