The Explore the cost of your services feature will be deprecated on 1 ** December 2022.**  No customer action is required as part of this change. Read more.

The Tag Policy feature in the Cost & Compliance module will be deprecated on 1 ** December 2022. **To ensure you are not impacted, follow this guide to prepare for the change.

A new Rule has been released to allow organizations to check that all API Gateway Stages have X-Ray enabled.

To enable this Rule, see Add a Rule from the Catalog.

Version 1.3.0 of the Python SDK has been released.

This change includes:

• Add configurable retry settings with sensible defaults during API token authentication

• Add configurable retry settings with sensible defaults for Stax API requests

See the documentation for more details.

The PhoneNumber and Tags attributes have been deprecated from the User APIs.

These attributes will be removed from the API on 1 ** December 2022** and from this date will be ignored on Create and Update requests, and not returned in GET requests.

Version 1.4.3 of stax2aws has been released. See how to upgrade stax2aws.

Changes:

• add --open-browser command line option that automatically opens a client browser with the token code populated

Stax has released an updated version of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) Standards bundle. This update fixes a rule implementation that was not correctly aligned to the APRA guidance. This new bundle is marked as version 1.1 to highlight that it is a new release.

One rule was removed from the bundle:

  1. RDS instances should not exist in public subnets

One new rule was added to the bundle:

  1. RDS instances should not be publicly accessible

This update will be applied immediately where automatic update is enabled for the Rule Bundle. If you do not have the automatic update enabled, see Keep Bundles Up To Date.

Version 1.4.2 of stax2aws has been released. See how to upgrade stax2aws.

Changes:

• add supported environment variables to command help

• validate the session duration --session-duration maximum value

A new Rule has been released to allow organizations to check that all Lambda Functions have X-Ray enabled.

To enable this Rule, see Add a Rule from the Catalog.

Managing large Views with over 100 tag values is now possible with new search improvements. Allocating any tag value to a segment is now possible using the Tag (Dimension) Search field. Read more.