A bug has been resolved with the Workloads API's Update Workload method's documentation.

The Update Workload documentation has been clarified to properly reflect the capability to Protect Workloads using the Protection property, as well as mandating the CatalogueVersionId property to ensure the update process occurs correctly.

• Added: Protection property (boolean)

• Changed: CatalogueVersionId is now mandatory

• Changed: Tags now has a more defined object schema

• Removed: Name property as it was unused

There is no change to the underlying functionality of the API, this is strictly a documentation/definition update.

A number of bug fixes have been released for Stax Policies.

Reject duplicate Organization Policies​

Users will now receive an immediate failure response from the Stax API when trying to attach an Organization Policy that has already been attached to the organization. This is to prevent duplicate attachments from occurring.

Prevent duplicate Organization Policy entries​

The Stax platform will no longer allow duplicate Organization Policies to be attached to a customer's organization. This is to resolve a problem where detaching a policy from an Organization that had the policy attached more than once would result in a detachment failure.

Stax Policy error feedback​

Improvements have been made to correctly report failures when using Stax Policies. This fix will result in an accurate Failure status being returned for the relevant Task Id.

As per AWS best practices, all S3 buckets created by the Stax platform in customer AWS Accounts will have versioning enabled. This applies to both existing buckets and new buckets. This change will be progressively rolled out to all customers over the coming days.

This change does not impact buckets created by Stax customers either within the AWS Console/SDK/API, or via the Stax Workloads service.

A bug fix has been released for the PUT account-types/policies route where the Stax platform would process any requested policy attachments before policy removal. This would result in a failure if the number of requested attachments, in addition to policies yet to be removed, exceeded the policy limit of four policies per Account Type. This fix ensures that policies are removed before new policies are attached to avoid future failures.

The stax:version tag will no longer be applied to CloudFormation stacks within new Workload deployments in Stax. This change has been introduced to improve the speed and reliability of Workload deployments.

Prior to this change, the tag was applied to all CloudFormation stacks deployed as part of a Workload.

Newly deployed Workloads will notice this change immediately. Any running Workload will retain this tag until the next Workload update, at which point it will be automatically removed by Stax.

The stax:version tag did not relate in any way to the version of the Workload deployed, rather it was used for Stax-internal purposes only.

Stax has applied hardening and configuration updates to the Stax Identity service to improve security and reliability. These updates form part of an ongoing effort to achieve compliance with enterprise-grade security standards. Authentication to Stax has not changed, however, you may notice that a Web Application Firewall (WAF) (leveraging AWS WAF) has been implemented on the Identity service and that token session times have been reduced from 30min to 15min. For more details about the WAF, check out the Docs.

New DNS functionality within Stax Networks allows you to connect your on-premises infrastructure with resources in your Stax accounts.

Stax utilizes AWS Route 53 Resolver endpoints to resolve DNS requests between AWS resources and on-premises resources. For more information on DNS within Stax Networks, check out the Docs.

As part of Stax Account Assurance, AWS IAM Access Analyzer is now enabled within every region of every account in your Organization.

For more information, see IAM Access Analyzer within the Account Assurance documentation.

The Users page has been updated to provide a richer and more seamless user experience. Updates to the page include filtering, which allows you to filter by a combination of Status, Role or Corporate ID, and additional messaging for managing federated users.

For more information about Users, head to the documentation.

Stax has introduced a Knowledge Base within Stax Docs, which provides information and guidance on how to solve a wide range of Stax use cases.

The Knowledge Base can be found in the left-hand nav under Help. We will continue to add to the Knowledge Base, so keep an eye out for new articles.