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.

The Stax SDK for Python now applies SDK Client variables at run time and allows for multiple SDK Client variable configurations to be stored and used. See the documentation for more details.

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.

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.

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.

An update has been applied to Stax's Compliance module to improve performance and reliability.

The update implements stability updates to the underlying software and lays the foundation for upcoming feature releases.

No functional changes have been introduced. Should you experience any issues, please raise a support case.

You can now use Stax to visualize the Savings Plans purchased by your organization. The Savings Plans tab in the Cost module allows you to view a summary of all Savings Plans and visualize details about them. Read more.

This feature will be released to all Stax customers over the following weeks.

Update (July 18, 2022): This feature has been released to all Stax customers.