Shielding Migration: Milan (MXP) to Milan (BGY)

Update timeline

1. investigating Oct 08, 2026, 12:10 AM UTC

   Our engineers are conducting scheduled maintenance to decommission the Milan (MXP) POP. This update will help to consolidate our network footprint in the Italy region. To learn more about shielding concepts, please read: https://www.fastly.com/documentation/guides/getting-started/hosts/shielding/ What’s changing? Beginning October 26, 2026, and concluding by November 2, 2026, Fastly will gradually redirect shield traffic for the mxp-milan-it shield location to our Milan (BGY) POP. Services that use mxp-milan-it will continue to reference it, and the redirect will happen automatically. What’s next? What do I have to do? No action is required. You may update your service configuration to select the new shield location (bgy-milan-it) if you do not want Fastly to automatically transition your shielded content. If you elect to change your shield selection, your origin servers may experience a temporary increase in request volume while the cache re-establishes in BGY. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Support team through https://support.fastly.com or your account team.

2. resolved Oct 20, 2026, 01:17 AM UTC

   We’ve identified an additional required action for customers using shielding in Compute services. We’ll be sharing a new status post with updated instructions. Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) services using standard shielding configurations remain unaffected and no action is required.