# December 2026 "Hopper" Milestone

Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician and pioneer of computer programming, the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages.

<div><p style="margin-bottom: 2rem;"><strong>What's included in this milestone:</strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0;"><li>VPCs Private by Default <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/903" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#903</a></li><li>Introduce &quot;Connections&quot; Service <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/883" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#883</a></li><li>Introduce &quot;Interconnects&quot; Service <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/908" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#908</a></li><li>Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) for Traffic Management <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/833" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#833</a></li><li>Support for AWS Direct Connect in gVPC <a href="https://github.com/datum-cloud/enhancements/issues/673" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#673</a></li></ul></div>

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Source: <https://www.datum.net/releases/december-2026-hopper>