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APRA Rule Bundle version 1.1 is now available in the Compliance Module

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Stax Team

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.

Stax EC2 Wastage now uses AWS CloudWatch Agent memory utilization

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Stax Team

Stax's Wastage feature has been improved to fetch AWS CloudWatch Agent EC2 memory utilization metrics when reporting on EC2 instance wastage. This metric, along with CPU utilization, is used to assess EC2 instance utilization.

Follow this guide to understand CloudWatch Agent metrics supported by Stax.

Permission Sets Update

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Stax Team

An issue has been resolved where Permission Sets allowed the creation of a policy larger than that permitted by AWS. Attempted creation of invalid policies will now result in an error being returned.

Fetch All Tasks by Status and 30 Day Task Expiry

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Stax Team

Stax API endpoint Fetch All Tasks by Status has been deprecated and will be removed from stax-au1, stax-us1 and stax-eu1 on Sunday 14th August at 0200 UTC (Monday 15th August at 1200 AEST).

In addition, a change is being made to the API endpoint Fetch Status of task in stax-au1, stax-us1 and stax-eu1 such that any tasks created on or after Sunday 14th August at 0200 UTC (Monday 15th August at 1200 AEST) will have a 30 day expiry. Any tasks older than 30 days will be removed from the system, responding with a 404 NOT FOUND status.

These changes are being made to improve the way Stax manages tasks.

If you have any concerns, please raise a support case.