The Stax Foundation Compliance Rule Bundle is a collection of AWS Well-Architected, CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark and Stax best-practice security controls, which helps you to track the safety and security of your accounts. It helps you to assess the compliance of your AWS accounts against enterprise-grade security controls that are applied to Stax-managed resources by default.

For organizations whose AWS accounts are Stax-managed, this Rule Bundle is already enabled. For organizations who are subscribed only to the Cost & Compliance module, head to the Rules Bundle page within the Stax Console to active the Stax Foundation Compliance Rule Bundle.

The Data page now includes additional AWS Fargate cost data allowing you to differentiate between on-demand and spot usage of Fargate.

On the Data page, filter by AWS Service: Fargate to see the usage codes (cpu_usage, memory_usage, and data_storage) split by on-demand or spot Payment Option Code.

On 3 January 2023, there will be a change to the period of data that can be viewed in Stax's Cost module. After the change, cost data from greater than 3 years ago will no longer be available. Read More

The Wastage feature in the Cost module now supports the Memory % Committed Bytes In Use AWS CloudWatch Agent memory metric when evaluating utilization of EC2 Windows instances. Read more.

AWS has released an update that enables users to manage support plans via AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Root user credentials are no longer required to change the support plan on AWS accounts. Read more.

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.