Recent Changes...

Keep up to date with changes we have made to Stax

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• Updated Notifications Experience and Microsoft Teams Functionality

  Published 19 Mar 2021

  The Notifications page has been redesigned and you can now send notifications direct to Microsoft Teams from Stax

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• New Region Osaka Blocked

  Published 5 Mar 2021

  AWS has made a new region ap-northeast-3 (Osaka, Japan) available. It does not meet Stax's minimum requirements, so Stax has disabled it by default.

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• Tag Validation Added to Stax Networks

  Published 1 Mar 2021

  When you apply tags to Stax Networks resources, the API will now perform additional validation.

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• Stax Python SDK v1.1.2 released

  Published 26 Feb 2021

  The Stax Python SDK has been updated to v1.1.2

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• Exclude default security groups from "Security groups should be used actively" rule

  Published 25 Feb 2021

  AWS does not permit deleting default security groups. The Compliance rule "Security groups should be used actively" has been updated to exclude default security groups.

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• stax2aws v1.3.0 released

  Published 25 Feb 2021

  stax2aws now supports specifiying the ARN of a role to assume when logging in.

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• More Stax User Roles Now Support Password Reset

  Published 22 Feb 2021

  The Stax roles Cost & Compliance Admin & Read Only now allow users to request a password reset for their own Stax user account

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• Stax Workloads Update

  Published 9 Feb 2021

  Stax has applied updates to Stax Workloads to improve performance and reliability.

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• Stax Workload Updates

  Published 2 Feb 2021

  Stax has applied updates to Stax Workloads to improve performance and reliability.

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• Improved AWS Credits Support in Stax Cost & Compliance

  Published 1 Feb 2021

  The Cost & Compliance module has been updated to improve the ability to understand where your AWS costs come from on the Data page.

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• Stax2aws v1.2.2 released

  Published 28 Jan 2021

  The Stax AWS Access CLI: stax2aws, has been updated to v1.2.2

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• Stax IDAM workload update

  Published 28 Jan 2021

  An updated version of the IDAM workload has been created.

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• Stax Python SDK v1.1.0 released

  Published 28 Jan 2021

  The Stax Python SDK has been updated to v1.1.0

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• Improvements to the Data page

  Published 21 Jan 2021

  Stax has made some improvements to how the data page looks and works.

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• Stax Workloads Update

  Published 22 Dec 2020

  Stax has applied updates to Stax Workloads to improve performance and reliability.

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• Stax Workload Updates

  Published 15 Dec 2020

  Stax has applied updates to Stax Workloads to improve performance and reliability.

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• Stax Python SDK v1.0.6 released

  Published 2 Dec 2020

  The Stax Python SDK has been updated to v1.0.6

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• Identity Service Updates

  Published 1 Dec 2020

  Stax has applied updates to the Stax Identity Service to improve performance and reliability.

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• API Tokens released out of beta

  Published 30 Oct 2020

  API Tokens has been released out of beta and is now available for general use

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• Workload API - Addtional Validation

  Published 29 Oct 2020

  Stax has updated the validation on the Create/Update Workload Catalogue Item API.

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• Stax Python SDK v1.0.5 released

  Published 27 Oct 2020

  The Stax Python SDK has been updated to v1.0.5

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• Stax Identity Service Upgrade

  Published 26 Oct 2020

  Stax has applied updates to the Stax Identity Service to improve performance and reliability, as well as introducing a refreshed appearance.

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• Retention increased for S3 Bucket containing VPC Flowlogs

  Published 28 Sep 2020

  Retention of VPC flow logs increased from 90 to 365 days

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• Support deactivating federated users and remove root users from API

  Published 1 Sep 2020

  Federated users can now be deactivated, and the concept of Stax root users has been removed.

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• IDAM reliability, security and performance updates

  Published 27 Aug 2020

  In the 9.0.3-8-1272a06 release of IDAM, we have improved our reliability and performance as well as adding security enhancements.

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• Rotation enabled for Stax-managed Customer Master Keys

  Published 25 Aug 2020

  All Customer Master Keys (CMKs) created by the Stax platform in customer AWS accounts will have automatic rotation enabled.

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• S3 best practices applied for legacy S3 buckets

  Published 20 Aug 2020

  All legacy S3 buckets created by the Stax platform in customer AWS Accounts will have enforced encryption of data in transit using HTTPS (TLS).

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• Encryption of Stax-managed SNS topics

  Published 17 Aug 2020

  All SNS topics created by the Stax platform in customer AWS Accounts have encryption enabled using KMS.

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• Enforced encryption of data in transit for Stax-created S3 buckets

  Published 17 Aug 2020

  All S3 buckets created by the Stax platform in customer AWS Accounts will have enforced encryption of data in transit using HTTPS (TLS).

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• Improvements to attaching and Detaching Stax Policies to Account Types

  Published 7 Aug 2020

  A number of improvements have been released when attaching and detaching Stax Policies to Account Types

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• S3 versioning is now enabled for all Stax platform managed buckets

  Published 29 Jul 2020

  Stax has now enabled S3 bucket versioning for all buckets it creates and manages.

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• Improved usability for User management

  Published 30 Jun 2020

  The Users page has been updated to provide a richer and more seamless user experience.

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