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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.

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.