Enable Private Endpoints for watsonx Orchestrate on IBM Cloud

We have a client who is considering integrating their existing agentic platform with watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) in the future running as a SaaS offering on IBM Cloud.

However, their security and compliance policies do not allow outbound or inbound traffic over the public internet for production systems.

To enable this integration, they require private endpoints (similar to Private Link or VPC endpoints) that allow secure, private network connectivity to the wxO service within IBM Cloud without traversing the public internet.

I believe this is currently not possible, but is it in the roadmap?

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Oct 27, 2025

Hi, following the private endpoint conversation, in this IBM documentation: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-object-storage?topic=cloud-object-storage-endpoints
It is clearly stated that "Private endpoints provide better performance" . So, no we do not have any datapoints to review but this statement aligns with the expected behaviour, since private endpoints route traffic through the IBM Cloud internal network instead of the public internet, resulting in lower latency, higher throughput, and more consistent performance.

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Marco Noel

Sep 23, 2025

What we are using instead of Private Endpoint is IBM Satellite Connector:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watson-orchestrate/base?topic=cloud-configuring-tls-tunnel
https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/satellite?topic=satellite-understand-connectors

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