Stax has introduced a new Rule for monitoring IAM User API key rotation, regardless of whether the keys are active or inactive.

This is particularly useful for situations where IAM User Keys may be deactivated either temporarily or permanently prior to deletion.

Add this Rule on the Rules page to get started.

An update has been applied to Stax's Events service to resolve a bug where AWS-generated events were not delivered as expected.

The Events documentation indicates that AWS-generated events raised in Stax-managed AWS accounts are centralized into the default AWS EventBridge Event Bus in your security account. The actual behaviour exhibited was that events were only emitted to the EventBridge Event Bus for events in the security and logging accounts.

The fix for this bug may result in a material increase to the volume of events received. If you have a downstream system (such as a SIEM) configured, you should consider any volume constraints that may be encountered by this increase in volume.

This fix is being rolled out to affected Stax tenancies over the coming days.

If you have any questions about this change, please contact your Customer Success Manager or raise a support case.

An update has been applied to the Stax Identity Service to improve performance and reliability.

The update implements security and stability updates to the underlying software. No functional changes have been introduced.

These changes have been applied automatically by Stax during the advertised maintenance window. There is no impact to service expected as a result of this upgrade. Should you experience any issues, please raise a support case.

Stax has introduced an improved interface to make it easier to filter and group data on the Data page.

The new left-hand panel allows you to explore possible filtering and grouping criteria. Power users can still use the filtering and grouping fields on the Data page to manually enter criteria.

Choose the criteria you want to filter by using the checkboxes, or choose Group to group on it. Click Search at the bottom of the panel to show the changes on the Data page.

Once the data is filtered as desired, you can show and hide columns using the new Show/Hide Columns button at the top left-hand size of the data table.

Stax Cost & Compliance now allows the following values to be set when creating Cost Spike Alerts:

• Alert sensitivity

• Minumum dollar increase

Cost Spike Alerts can help you keep an eye on those parts of your AWS account that are prone to exceeding their monthly budget, or have unpredictable costs that you need to stay on top of.

For guidance on configuring these alerts, check out the documentation.

We have redesigned the pages in Notifications to provide a clearer view of your personal and organization notifications. It is easier now to browse notifications by Email, Slack, Webhook or Microsoft Teams by selecting the appropiate tab at the top of the page.

We have also redesigned the create workflow. The first step allows you to select the target Segment and notification destination. The second step allows selecting the notifications you wish to receive.

Version 1.1.3 of the Python SDK has been released.

This change introduces a bug fix to ensure that credentials don't expire before the SDK has a chance to renew them, and removes some functionality that wasn't being used.

For more details about the Python SDK, check it out on Github.

Stax Networks will now create an additional *.s3.{region}.amazonaws.com wildcard Hosted Zone record when enabling the S3 Interface Endpoint.

This additional hosted zone record will simplify the use of the S3 Interface Endpoint and allow it to work with other AWS services, such as AWS SSM Session Manager.

If you are currently using an S3 Interface Endpoint, then you can edit your Networking Hub to toggle the S3 Interface Endpoint off, then on to perform the update.

Stax Networks now supports the Lambda Interface Endpoint for VPCs that are part of a Networking Hub.

You can enable the Lambda Interface Endpoints for new and existing Networking Hubs using the Stax Console, API, or SDK. See Manage Networking Hubs for more.

An update has been applied to Stax Workloads to improve performance and reliability:

• Fixed a bug where the deployment tasks where not queued correctly. Workloads will now correctly execute a maximum of 50 deployments concurrently, per Stax organization. Additional deploy requests will be queued and actioned once capacity becomes available.

These changes have been applied automatically by Stax. There is no impact to service expected as a result of this upgrade.