Stacklet Product News and Updates – October 2024

Starting this month, we’re excited to bring you a monthly newsletter focused on Stacklet product updates. Each edition will highlight the latest features in our current release, provide a sneak peek into what’s coming in future updates, and offer insights on how these enhancements can help you optimize your cloud usage, drive efficiency, and reduce risks across your cloud environment.

Stacklet Jun0 Enters Beta: Real-World Environments, Real-Time Results

Stacklet Jun0, our AI-powered assistant that accelerates governance tasks and delivers faster insights, is now available in an invite-only beta for real-world environments. Early results show impressive improvements in speed and efficiency:

• 5X Faster Policy Authoring: Create and dry-run policies with minimal expertise. Stacklet Jun0 delivers 5X faster policy authoring compared to even advanced manual methods.

• 10X Faster Insights: Gain governance insights through natural language queries. Jun0 automatically generates SQL-based results from Stacklet’s real-time cloud asset database, giving you answers on operations, cost, security, and compliance faster than ever.

You can also watch a recent demo video from a webinar here

New Cost Dashboards and Workflows: Empowering FinOps Teams to Optimize at Scale

Over the past few months, we’ve seen tremendous traction with FinOps and Cloud financial management teams. In collaboration with our power users, we’ve refined and refreshed our dashboards to help teams efficiently scale their cloud usage optimization programs.

These new dashboards and workflows offer powerful filtering and grouping capabilities, allowing you to drill down from your entire organization to specific teams or services. You can easily identify usage optimization opportunities and view detailed information to prioritize and allocate them effectively. Shareable links make it simple to send actionable insights directly to engineering teams for swift execution.

The new cost dashboard is now available in Preview, with features like “Total Wasted” coming in an upcoming release.

Note: Stacklet AssetDB already offers fine-grained query capabilities, unlocking additional FinOps insights – including total waste calculations. The new workflows will further streamline these processes, making cloud cost management even more seamless.

New Policies: GCP NIST, CIS 3.0 and more.

We’re excited to introduce several new out-of-the-box policies, including Google Cloud policies for NIST compliance, along with updates to our existing policies across all cloud platforms to meet CIS 3.0 standards. These enhancements will help ensure that our customers’ environments are secure by default, providing strong foundational cloud security and compliance coverage right out of the box.

New Cloud Custodian Release 0.9.41.0 Now Included with Stacklet

With Stacklet, you automatically get the latest features of Cloud Custodian without the need to manage manual upgrades. This new release brings several new resource filters and fixes across multiple cloud providers, giving users more granular control over a broader set of resources. Some key updates from Stacklet and Cloud Custodian community include:

• AWS Workspaces: New filters for user settings, subnets, and more, allowing for more precise management of your AWS Workspace environments.
• Config Recorder: Added a new filter to help you limit the retention period in days for config recorder.
• MemoryDB: Added new resources for MemoryDB Users and ACL.
• OpenSearch: Added new resources for OpenSearch ingestion pipelines, including actions to tag, stop, delete, and more.
• CloudFront: Added support for new origin access control resource.
• Azure Snapshot: Added disk snapshot resource.
• Terraform: Added validate command.
• Core: Added new from_json jmespath function.

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