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Keep up to date with changes we have made to Stax
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Additional CloudFormation Outputs in VPC Stacks
Published 20 Oct 2021
The CloudFormation stacks for Stax Networks-created VPCs and Transit VPCs now display additional fields for Internet Gateway and NAT Gateway identifiers
Tax Cost Data Changes for Resell Organizations
Published 19 Oct 2021
From 1 November 2021, some organizations will notice changes to their tax cost data in Stax.
stax2aws v1.4.0 released
Published 19 Oct 2021
stax2aws version 1.4.0 fixes a bug where no roles were available in certain situations.
Stax Events
Published 14 Oct 2021
Stax Events has been updated to include the user's status in relevant event payloads.
Deleted Users and Groups Can Now Be Re-Added to Stax
Published 14 Oct 2021
Stax now supports re-inviting deleted users and creating groups with the same name as previously deleted groups.
Identity Service Updates
Published 14 Oct 2021
Stax has applied updates to the Stax Identity Service to improve performance and reliability.
Stax Workloads Update
Published 13 Oct 2021
Stax has applied updates to Stax Workloads to improve performance and reliability.
Filter By Marketplace Purchases on the Data Page
Published 5 Oct 2021
The Data page now supports filtering records by whether or not they are incurred as a result of AWS Marketplace purchases.
AWS account Canonical user ID shown in Stax Accounts API
Published 23 Sep 2021
The Stax Accounts API now displays the AWS account Canonical user ID
Use /31 Networks with Stax Networks for Direct Connect Virtual Interfaces
Published 31 Aug 2021
Stax has updated Stax Networks to allow for the use of smaller /31 CIDR blocks when creating virtual interfaces for use with AWS Direct Connect.
Stax Permission Sets Limit Update
Published 11 Aug 2021
Stax has increased the maximum number of assignments per permission set to 50
Stax Workloads Update
Published 10 Aug 2021
Stax has applied updates to Stax Workloads to fix manifest limit enforcement and improve performance and reliability.
Stax Workloads Update
Published 29 Jul 2021
Stax has applied updates to Stax Workloads to improve performance and reliability.
Deleting Permission Sets
Published 22 Jul 2021
Permission Sets can now be deleted from within the Stax console
Improved Workloads Page
Published 6 Jul 2021
Improvements have been made to the Workloads page to improve usability and functionality.
stax2aws v1.3.1 released
Published 1 Jul 2021
stax2aws version 1.3.1 fixes a bug where no roles were available in certain situations.
Improvements to Stax Accounts
Published 30 Jun 2021
The Stax Accounts service has been improved to increase reliability and reduce account creation time. Additionally, the Security Foundation Account now manages Amazon GuardDuty via AWS Organizations.
Identity Service Updates
Published 22 Jun 2021
Stax has applied updates to the Stax Identity Service to improve performance and reliability.
Identity Service Updates
Published 18 Jun 2021
Stax has applied updates to the Stax Identity Service to improve performance and reliability.
New Stax Python SDK Networking Examples
Published 24 May 2021
The Stax Python SDK now includes additional Stax Networks code examples
Monitor IAM User API Key Rotation for Deactivated Keys
Published 19 May 2021
Using this new Stax Rule, it is possible to monitor API Key rotation for IAM Users, both active and inactive.
Identity Service Updates
Published 11 May 2021
Stax has applied updates to the Stax Identity Service to improve performance and reliability.
Easier Filtering and Grouping of Data
Published 6 May 2021
Stax has introduced an improved interface to make it easier to filter and group data on the Data page.
Customize Cost Spike Alerts
Published 4 May 2021
Cost Spike Alerts now support additional customization using sensitivity and minimum dollar increase parameters.
Improvements to Notifications
Published 27 Apr 2021
Stax has made some improvements to Notifications.
Stax Python SDK v1.1.3 released
Published 27 Apr 2021
The Stax Python SDK has been updated to v1.1.3
Workloads Performance Fix
Published 26 Apr 2021
Stax has applied updates to Stax Workloads to improve performance and reliability
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
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.
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.
Stax Python SDK v1.1.2 released
Published 26 Feb 2021
The Stax Python SDK has been updated to v1.1.2
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.
stax2aws v1.3.0 released
Published 25 Feb 2021
stax2aws now supports specifiying the ARN of a role to assume when logging in.
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
Stax Workloads Update
Published 9 Feb 2021
Stax has applied updates to Stax Workloads to improve performance and reliability.
Stax Workload Updates
Published 2 Feb 2021
Stax has applied updates to Stax Workloads to improve performance and reliability.
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.
Stax2aws v1.2.2 released
Published 28 Jan 2021
The Stax AWS Access CLI: stax2aws, has been updated to v1.2.2
Stax IDAM workload update
Published 28 Jan 2021
An updated version of the IDAM workload has been created.
Stax Python SDK v1.1.0 released
Published 28 Jan 2021
The Stax Python SDK has been updated to v1.1.0
Improvements to the Data page
Published 21 Jan 2021
Stax has made some improvements to how the data page looks and works.
Stax Workloads Update
Published 22 Dec 2020
Stax has applied updates to Stax Workloads to improve performance and reliability.
Stax Workload Updates
Published 15 Dec 2020
Stax has applied updates to Stax Workloads to improve performance and reliability.
Stax Python SDK v1.0.6 released
Published 2 Dec 2020
The Stax Python SDK has been updated to v1.0.6
Identity Service Updates
Published 1 Dec 2020
Stax has applied updates to the Stax Identity Service to improve performance and reliability.
API Tokens released out of Preview
Published 30 Oct 2020
API Tokens has been released out of Preview and is now available for general use
Workload API - Addtional Validation
Published 29 Oct 2020
Stax has updated the validation on the Create/Update Workload Catalogue Item API.
Stax Python SDK v1.0.5 released
Published 27 Oct 2020
The Stax Python SDK has been updated to v1.0.5
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.
Retention increased for S3 Bucket containing VPC Flowlogs
Published 28 Sep 2020
Retention of VPC flow logs increased from 90 to 365 days
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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
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.
Improved usability for User management
Published 30 Jun 2020
The Users page has been updated to provide a richer and more seamless user experience.