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Fix
3 years ago

Stax Policies has received a number of bug fixes

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.

changed
3 years ago

S3 versioning is now enabled for all Stax platform managed buckets

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.

Fix
3 years ago

Stax Policies will now process policy removal before attachment

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.

removed
3 years ago

Stax Version tag no longer applied to Workloads

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.

security
3 years ago

Improvements to the Stax Identity Service

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.

added
3 years ago

DNS management for on-premises infrastructure

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.

added
3 years ago

Knowledge base articles in Stax Docs

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.

added
3 years ago

Workload Protection in Stax

Stax Workloads now supports the use of AWS Stack Policies to give you more control over your Workload’s CloudFormation resources and protect against modifications and deletions.

For information on how to enable Workload Protection, check out out our guide.

changed
3 years ago

Improved usability for User management

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.

added
3 years ago

Search in Stax Docs

We have added search functionality to Stax Docs to help you find the information you are looking for.

The search bar is located at the top of every documentation page.