Five reasons why Forge is perfect for your Confluence

For many Atlassian Connect apps, your data must be sent to a third-party server, processed, and then returned. With Forge, that journey is gone. Because Forge is a FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) platform, our app logic runs entirely within Atlassian's secure infrastructure. For you, this means controlled data egress risk by design. While we can still securely connect to external services when needed, Forge's second security layer enforces strict tenancy isolation and egress restrictions to ensure your data never leaves the environment without an explicit, authenticated trigger.

Forge apps inherit controls from Atlassian that meet 30% of the SOC 2 requirements. So, in regulated industries where the obligations around vetting vendors are a perennial headache, you can immediately reduce work-about-work time when it comes to compliance.

Where data lives matters, especially for users in the EU and highly regulated regions. Through its hosted storage, Forge can now offer Data Residency. This allows admins to pin app data to specific geographic locations, ensuring full compliance with GDPR and local privacy laws.

Because Forge apps run entirely on Atlassian's proprietary cloud infrastructure, their uptime is tied directly to Atlassian's system availability. By eliminating the need for third-party servers, we've removed third-party outage risks entirely. Instead, your tools scale resources automatically in real-time, ensuring consistent performance even during your team's most demanding usage spikes.

Atlassian is ending support for the older Connect framework in Q4 2026 and has stated that all new extensibility features (like Atlassian Intelligence and Rovo agent actions) will be developed exclusively for the Forge platform. Kolekti is ahead of this curve by moving both Mosaic and Forms for Confluence to Forge early.