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As part of the improvements to the creation and scheduling of tasks with the Tasks API, a new OperationStatusof CREATEDhas been added to the API. Read more.

As part of the release of Stax-managed Security Hub a new rule, Security Hub should be enabled for all regions in an account, has been added to the Stax Foundation Compliance Rule Bundle to help you follow recommended best practices.

This compliance score is displayed on the Accounts page. If you've noticed a drop in this score, this may indicate that AWS Security Hub is not configured in that account.

To easily remediate this, configure Stax-managed Security Hub to enable the service across all accounts and supported regions.

Stax has released Stax-managed Security Hub which gives you the ability to configure AWS Security Hub and its prepackaged standards for all accounts in your AWS Organization within all supported regions.

See Using Stax-managed Security Hub for details on how to enable it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.