Amazon GuardDuty
Protect your AWS accounts with intelligent threat detection
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Continuously monitor your AWS accounts, instances, serverless and container workloads, users, databases, and storage for potential threats.
Expose threats quickly using anomaly detection, ML, behavioral modeling, and threat intelligence feeds from AWS and leading third parties.
Mitigate threats early by initiating automated responses.
Quickly and easily scale threat detection across your environment.
How it works
This diagram details GuardDuty’s features and integration with different AWS workload and resource types. The diagram is divided into five sections that display from left to right.
The first section is titled “Amazon GuardDuty,” and says, “A threat detection service that continuously monitors for compromised accounts, anomalous behavior, and malware.”
The second section is titled “Activate GuardDuty.” The second section says, “With a few steps in the console, monitor all your AWS accounts without additional software to deploy or manage.”
The third section explains the different workload and resource types that you can continuously monitor for threats using Amazon GuardDuty. The items outlined are: Amazon S3, databases, container workloads, instance workloads, accounts and users, and serverless.
In the third section, under the workload and resource types, there is a box titled “Continuously analyze.” The box then says, “Automatically and continuously monitor AWS workloads and resources for potential threats at scale.”
The fourth section has an illustration depicting crosshairs, with an alert or warning icon. This section describes how GuardDuty intelligently detects threats, and says “GuardDuty uses machine learning, anomaly detection, malware scanning, and integrated threat intelligence to identify and prioritize potential threats.”
Use cases
Improve security operations visibility
Gain insight of compromised credentials, unusual data access in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), suspicious logins in Amazon Aurora, and API calls from known malicious IP addresses.
Assist analysts in investigations and automate remediation
Receive findings with context, metadata, and impacted resource details. Determine root cause with Amazon Detective. Route findings to AWS Security Hub and Amazon EventBridge.
Identify files containing malware
Scan Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) for files that might have malware creating suspicious behavior on instance and container workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Detect and mitigate threats in your container environment
Identify and profile possible malicious or suspicious behavior in container workloads by analyzing Amazon EKS audit logs and container runtime activity.
Customers
How to get started
Find out how Amazon GuardDuty works
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See how global companies are using GuardDuty to protect their AWS accounts with intelligent threat detection.
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