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The following table describes important changes to the documentation since the last release of the Amazon GuardDuty User Guide. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.

ChangeDescriptionDate

New feature ‐ Added support for VPC endpoints

GuardDuty is now integrated with AWS PrivateLink and supports VPC endpoints. For more information about the AWS PrivateLink integration, see Amazon GuardDuty and interface VPC endpoints (AWS PrivateLink).

September 17, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring - Amazon EKS

Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.7.1 for Amazon EKS resources. For more information about release notes, see GuardDuty security agent for Amazon EKS.

September 13, 2024

Updated functionality in Malware Protection for S3

Malware Protection for S3 added a new field, s3Throttled, to the S3 object scan result Amazon EventBridge (EventBridge) schema. The s3Throttled field indicates whether or not there was a delay in uploading or retrieving storage from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. For more information, see Monitoring S3 object scans with Amazon EventBridge.

September 13, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring - Amazon EC2

Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.3.1 for Amazon EC2 resources. For more information about release notes, see GuardDuty security agent for Amazon EC2.

September 12, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring - Amazon ECS-Fargate

Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.3.1 for Amazon ECS-Fargate resources. For more information about release notes, see GuardDuty security agent for AWS Fargate (Amazon ECS only).

September 11, 2024

Updated GuardDuty service-linked role (SLR)

GuardDuty has updated the SLR to include the ec2:Describe:Vpcs permission in the Amazon EC2 actions. For more information, see Service-linked role permissions for GuardDuty.

August 22, 2024

Significant content addition

GuardDuty added significant content updates to the Malware Protection for S3 feature.

August 20, 2024

Updated functionality in GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring - Amazon EC2

Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.3.0 for Amazon EC2 resources. For more information about release notes, see GuardDuty security agent for Amazon EC2.

August 19, 2024

Updated functionality in GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring - Amazon EKS

Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.7.0 for Amazon EKS resources. For more information about release notes, see GuardDuty security agent for Amazon EKS clusters.

August 17, 2024

Significant content addition

GuardDuty added new information about malware detection methodology and scan engines that it uses for the Malware Protection for S3 and Malware Protection for EC2 features. For more information, see GuardDuty malware detection scan engine.

August 15, 2024

New feature ‐ Protecting AI workloads

GuardDuty foundational threat detection and Lambda Protection helps you to better secure and detect threats to AI workloads built on AWS. For more information, see Protecting AI workloads with GuardDuty.

August 14, 2024

Updated functionality in GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring - Fargate (Amazon ECS only)

Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.3.0 for AWS Fargate (Amazon ECS only) resources. For more information about release notes, see GuardDuty security agent for Fargate-ECS.

August 9, 2024

Updated functionality - Malware Protection for S3

GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 increases the maximum number of S3 buckets quota from 10 to 25 buckets. This quota applies to an AWS account per each AWS Region. For more information, see Malware Protection for S3.

August 8, 2024

Updated - New finding types in Runtime Monitoring

GuardDuty has added two new Runtime Monitoring finding types that will help you detect threats involving suspicious shell creation on the monitored resource, and privilege escalation where a process suspiciously elevates its privileges to root.

August 6, 2024

Updated - Integrating with AWS Security Hub

AWS Security Hub provides a list of GuardDuty security controls to evaluate your resources, and check your compliance against security industry standards and best practices. For more information, see Using GuardDuty controls in Security Hub.

July 11, 2024

Updated GuardDuty tester script for findings

GuardDuty now supports over 100 findings with different AWS resources in a dedicated account Use amazon-guardduty-tester repository and follow the steps to test the findings and review them to understand the finding details. For more information, see Test GuardDuty findings in dedicated accounts.

June 28, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring

Runtime Monitoring released a new security agent version 1.2.0 for the Amazon EC2 resource. For information about release notes, see GuardDuty security agent for Amazon EC2 instance. For information about updating the security agent to this release version manually, see Managing security agent manually for Amazon EC2 instance.

June 13, 2024

New feature - Malware Protection for S3 Region availability

GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 is now available in all the commercial Regions where GuardDuty is available. This feature helps you scan newly uploaded objects to Amazon S3 buckets for potential malware and suspicious uploads, and take action to isolate them before they are ingested into downstream processes. For information about enabling Malware Protection for S3, see GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3.

June 12, 2024

New feature - Malware Protection for S3

GuardDuty announces general availability of Malware Protection for S3 that helps you scan newly uploaded objects to Amazon S3 buckets for potential malware and suspicious uploads, and take action to isolate them before they are ingested into downstream processes. This feature is fully managed by AWS. GuardDuty publishes the S3 object scan result to your EventBridge default event bus. You can allow GuardDuty to add tags to your scanned S3 objects. You can build downstream workflows, such as isolation to a quarantine bucket, or define bucket policies using tags that prevent users or applications from accessing certain objects. For more information, see GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3. Presently, it is available in the following Regions:

  • US East (N. Virginia)

  • US East (Ohio)

  • US West (Oregon)

  • Europe (Ireland)

  • Europe (Frankfurt)

  • Europe (Stockholm)

  • Asia Pacific (Sydney)

  • Asia Pacific (Tokyo)

  • Asia Pacific (Singapore)

June 11, 2024

Updated AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess policy

Added permission that allows you to pass an IAM role to GuardDuty when you enable Malware Protection for S3. For more information about this policy update, see GuardDuty updates to AWS managed policies.

June 10, 2024

Updated functionality in GuardDuty RDS Protection

RDS Protection extends support to monitor the login activity on your RDS for PostgreSQL databases. As part of this expansion, GuardDuty will automatically begin monitoring login data from RDS for PostgreSQL databases for accounts that have already enabled GuardDuty RDS Protection. For more information, see RDS Protection.

June 6, 2024

Updated functionality in GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring - Fargate (Amazon ECS only)

Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.2.0 for AWS Fargate (Amazon ECS only) resources. For more information about release notes, see GuardDuty security agent for Fargate-ECS.

May 31, 2024

Updated functionality in GuardDuty Malware Protection for EC2

For each Amazon EBS volume that is attached to your Amazon EC2 instances and container workloads, GuardDuty Malware Protection for EC2 has increased the size of the EBS volume that it scans to up to 2048 GB. For information about scanning Amazon EBS volumes attached to your instances, see GuardDuty Malware Protection for EC2.

May 29, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring

Runtime Monitoring for Amazon ECS-Fargate resources now supports detecting potential threats on your tasks launched by AWS Batch and AWS CodePipeline. For more information, see How Runtime Monitoring works with Fargate (Amazon ECS only).

May 28, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring

Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.6.1 for Amazon EKS resources. For information about release notes, see EKS add-on agent release history.

May 14, 2024

Expanded Region support for Runtime Monitoring

GuardDuty expands the support for Runtime Monitoring to the Canada West (Calgary) Region. For information about getting started with Runtime Monitoring, see Enabling Runtime Monitoring.

May 7, 2024

Expanded Region support for RDS Protection

GuardDuty expands RDS Protection support to the following AWS Regions:

  • Canada West (Calgary)

  • Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)

  • Europe (Spain)

  • Europe (Zurich)

  • Middle East (UAE)

  • Israel (Tel Aviv)

  • Asia Pacific (Melbourne)

For information about enabling this feature, see RDS Protection.

May 3, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring

Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.1.0 for AWS Fargate (Amazon ECS only) resources. For more information about release notes, see GuardDuty security agent for Fargate-ECS.

May 1, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring

Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.6.0 for Amazon EKS resources. For information about release notes, see EKS add-on agent release history.

April 29, 2024

Support for IPAddressv6

GuardDuty has added IPAddressv6 support for both local and remote IP details. You can use the associated Filter attributes to filter GuardDuty findings or create suppression rules.

April 18, 2024

Updated console experience to configure exporting findings

GuardDuty has updated the console experience to export the findings generated in your AWS accounts, to an Amazon S3 bucket. For more information, see Exporting GuardDuty findings.

April 1, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring

Runtime Monitoring released a new security agent version 1.1.0 for the Amazon EC2 resource. This version supports GuardDuty automated agent configuration in Runtime Monitoring for Amazon EC2 instances. For information about release notes, see GuardDuty security agent for Amazon EC2 instance.

March 28, 2024

General availability of Runtime Monitoring for Amazon EC2 instances

GuardDuty announces general availability(GA) of Runtime Monitoring for Amazon EC2 instances. Now, you have an option to enable automated agent configuration that permits GuardDuty to install and manage the security agent for your Amazon EC2 instances on your behalf. With GuardDuty automated agent, you can also use inclusion or exclusion tags to inform GuardDuty to install and manage the security agent on selected Amazon EC2 instances only. For more information, see How Runtime Monitoring works with Amazon EC2 instances.

List of new finding types released along with this GA

March 28, 2024

Amazon GuardDuty has updated the Service-linked role (SLR)

Use AWS Systems Manager actions to manage SSM associations on Amazon EC2 instances when you enable GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring with automated agent for Amazon EC2. When GuardDuty automated agent configuration is disabled, GuardDuty considers only those EC2 instances that have an inclusion tag (GuardDutyManaged:true).

  • The following list shows the new permissions:

    "ssm:DescribeAssociation",
"ssm:DeleteAssociation",
"ssm:UpdateAssociation",
"ssm:CreateAssociation",
"ssm:StartAssociationsOnce",
"ssm:AddTagsToResource",
"ssm:CreateAssociation",
"ssm:UpdateAssociation",
"ssm:SendCommand",
"ssm:GetCommandInvocation"

March 26, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring

With the latest GuardDuty security agent (add-on) v1.5.0 release for Amazon EKS, Runtime Monitoring now supports configuring specific parameters of your GuardDuty security agent, such as CPU and memory settings, PriorityClass settings, and DNS policy settings. For more information, see Configuring GuardDuty security agent (EKS add-on) parameters.

March 7, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring

Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.5.0 for Amazon EKS resources. For information about release notes, see EKS add-on agent release history.

March 7, 2024

Support for Canada West (Calgary)

Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region. Some of the protection plans within GuardDuty might not be available in this Region. For the latest information, see Regions and endpoints.

March 6, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring

The GuardDuty security agent versions 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 for Amazon EKS clusters will no longer be supported starting May 14, 2024. For information about what steps you can take before the end of standard support, see GuardDuty security agent for Amazon EKS clusters.

February 16, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring

Runtime Monitoring supports the latest Kubernetes version 1.29 with the existing security agent version 1.4.1. The support has been available since the launch of this Kubernetes version. For information about supported Kubernetes versions, see Kubernetes versions supported by GuardDuty security agent.

February 16, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring - Regional availability

GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring now supports shared Amazon VPC within the same AWS Organizations. GuardDuty service-linked role (SLR) has a new permission – organizations:DescribeOrganization that helps retrieving the organization ID for the shared Amazon VPC account to set the endpoint policy. For information about prerequisites to using a shared Amazon VPC endpoint in Runtime Monitoring, see Support for shared Amazon VPC. This capability is available in all the Regions where GuardDuty supports Runtime Monitoring.

February 12, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring - Regional availability

GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring now supports shared Amazon VPC within the same AWS Organizations. GuardDuty service-linked role (SLR) has a new permission – organizations:DescribeOrganization that helps retrieving the organization ID for the shared Amazon VPC account to set the endpoint policy. For information about prerequisites to using a shared Amazon VPC endpoint in Runtime Monitoring, see Support for shared Amazon VPC. Presently, this capability is available in some of the AWS Regions. For more information, see Regions and endpoints.

February 9, 2024

Updated functionality with support for new AWS Regions – Malware Protection for EC2

Malware Protection for EC2 now supports scanning the EBS volumes encrypted with AWS managed keys in the US West (Oregon) Region.

February 6, 2024

Updated functionality with support for new AWS Regions – Malware Protection for EC2

Malware Protection for EC2 now supports scanning the EBS volumes encrypted with AWS managed keys in the following AWS Regions:

  • Asia Pacific (Singapore) (ap-southeast-1)

  • Europe (Frankfurt) (eu-central-1)

  • Asia Pacific (Osaka) (ap-northeast-3)

  • US East (Ohio) (us-east-2)

  • Europe (Milan) (eu-south-1)

  • Asia Pacific (Tokyo) (ap-northeast-1)

  • Asia Pacific (Seoul) (ap-northeast-2)

  • Canada (Central) (ca-central-1)

  • Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1)

  • US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)

February 5, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring

GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring has released a new GuardDuty security agent version (v1.0.2) for Amazon EC2 instances. This agent version includes support for the latest Amazon ECS AMIs. For more information about agent release history, see GuardDuty security agent for Amazon EC2 instances.

February 2, 2024

Updated functionality with support for new AWS Regions – Malware Protection for EC2

Malware Protection for EC2 now supports scanning the Amazon EBS volumes encrypted with AWS managed keys in the following AWS Regions:

  • Europe (London) (eu-west-2)

  • Europe (Stockholm) (eu-north-1)

  • Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) (ap-east-1)

  • Africa (Cape Town) (af-south-1)

  • Middle East (Bahrain) (me-south-1)

  • Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2)

  • Europe (Spain) (eu-south-2)

  • Asia Pacific (Melbourne) (ap-southeast-4)

  • Asia Pacific (Sydney) (ap-southeast-2)

  • Israel (Tel Aviv) (il-central-1)

January 31, 2024

Updated Managing accounts with AWS Organizations

Reorganized the content under Managing accounts with AWS Organizations., added steps to change the delegated GuardDuty administrator account, and updated Understanding the relationship between GuardDuty administrator account and member accounts.

January 30, 2024

Updated functionality with support for new AWS Regions

Malware Protection for EC2 now supports scanning the EBS volumes encrypted with AWS managed keys in the following AWS Regions:

  • Asia Pacific (Jakarta) (ap-southeast-3)

  • US West (N. California) (us-west-1)

  • Middle East (UAE) (me-central-1)

  • Europe (Zurich) (eu-central-2)

  • Asia Pacific (Mumbai) (ap-south-1)

  • South America (São Paulo) (sa-east-1)

January 29, 2024

Updated functionality in Malware Protection for EC2

Malware Protection for EC2 now supports scanning the EBS volumes encrypted using AWS managed keys. Malware Protection for EC2 service-linked role (SLR) has two new permissions – GetSnapshotBlock and ListSnapshotBlocks. These permissions will help GuardDuty fetch the snapshot of an EBS volume (encrypted using AWS managed key) from your AWS account and copy it to the GuardDuty service account before starting the malware scan. Presently, this functionality is available in Europe (Paris) (eu-west-3) only. For more information, see Supported volumes for malware scan.

January 25, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring

GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring has released a new GuardDuty security agent version (v1.0.1) with general performance tuning and enhancements. For more information about agent release history, see GuardDuty security agent for Amazon EC2 instances.

January 23, 2024

Updated functionality in Runtime Monitoring

Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.4.1 for Amazon EKS resources. For more information, see EKS add-on agent release history.

January 16, 2024

Runtime Monitoring released new agent v1.4.0 for Amazon EKS resources

Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.4.0 for Amazon EKS resources. For more information, see EKS add-on agent release history.

December 21, 2023

Added S3 and AWS CloudTrail machine learning (ML)-based findings types to the Europe (Zurich) , Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and Israel (Tel Aviv)

The following S3 and CloudTrail findings that identify the anomalous behavior using the GuardDuty's anomaly detection machine learning (ML) model are now available in the Europe (Zurich) , Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions:

December 21, 2023

GuardDuty supports 50,000 member accounts through AWS Organizations

A delegated GuardDuty administrator can now manage a maximum of 50,000 member accounts through AWS Organizations. This also includes a maximum of 5000 member accounts that associated with the GuardDuty administrator account by invitation.

December 20, 2023

GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring support expanded to 19 AWS Regions

Runtime Monitoring is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Middle East (Bahrain), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), US West (N. California), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Europe (Milan), Middle East (UAE), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Zurich).

December 6, 2023

GuardDuty expands Runtime Monitoring capability

In addition to detecting threats to your Amazon EKS clusters, GuardDuty announces general availability of Runtime Monitoring to detect threats to your Amazon ECS workloads and a preview release to detect threats to your Amazon EC2 instances. For more information about which AWS Regions presently support Runtime Monitoring, see Regions and endpoints.

November 26, 2023

Amazon GuardDuty has updated the Service-linked role (SLR)

GuardDuty has added new permissions to use Amazon ECS actions to manage and retrieve information about the Amazon ECS clusters, and manage the Amazon ECS account setting with guarddutyActivate. The actions pertaining to Amazon ECS also retrieve the information about the tags associated with GuardDuty.

  • The following permissions have been added as a part of GuardDuty expanding the Runtime Monitoring capability:

    "ecs:ListClusters",
"ecs:DescribeClusters",
"ecs:PutAccountSettingDefault"

November 26, 2023

Updated the AWS managed policies

GuardDuty added a new permission, organizations:ListAccounts to the AmazonGuardDutyFullAccessPolicy and AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess.

November 16, 2023

GuardDuty released new finding types that use EKS Audit Log Monitoring.

EKS Audit Log Monitoring now supports the following finding types in Asia Pacific (Melbourne)(ap-southeast-4).

  • CredentialAccess:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.SecretsAccessed

  • PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.RoleBindingCreated

  • Execution:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.ExecInPod

  • PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.WorkloadDeployed!PrivilegedContainer

  • PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.WorkloadDeployed!ContainerWithSensitiveMount

  • Execution:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.WorkloadDeployed

  • PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.RoleCreated

  • Discovery:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.PermissionChecked

November 11, 2023

GuardDuty released new finding types that use EKS Audit Log Monitoring.

EKS Audit Log Monitoring now supports the following finding types in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2), Europe (Zurich) (eu-central-2), and Europe (Spain) (eu-south-2) Regions.

  • CredentialAccess:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.SecretsAccessed

  • PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.RoleBindingCreated

  • Execution:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.ExecInPod

  • PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.WorkloadDeployed!PrivilegedContainer

  • PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.WorkloadDeployed!ContainerWithSensitiveMount

  • Execution:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.WorkloadDeployed

  • PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.RoleCreated

  • Discovery:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.PermissionChecked

November 10, 2023

GuardDuty released new finding types that use EKS Audit Log Monitoring.

EKS Audit Log Monitoring now supports the following finding types. These finding types are not yet available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) (ap-south-2), Europe (Zurich) (eu-central-2), Europe (Spain) (eu-south-2), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) (ap-southeast-4) Regions.

  • CredentialAccess:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.SecretsAccessed

  • PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.RoleBindingCreated

  • Execution:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.ExecInPod

  • PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.WorkloadDeployed!PrivilegedContainer

  • PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.WorkloadDeployed!ContainerWithSensitiveMount

  • Execution:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.WorkloadDeployed

  • PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.RoleCreated

  • Discovery:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.PermissionChecked

November 8, 2023

EKS Runtime Monitoring released new agent v1.3.1

EKS Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.3.1 that includes important security patches and updates.

October 23, 2023

New filter attribute for finding

GuardDuty has added a new criteria to filter the generated findings. DNS request domain suffix provides the second- and top-level domain involved in the activity that prompted GuardDuty to generate the finding.

October 17, 2023

EKS Runtime Monitoring released new agent v1.3.0 that supports Kubernetes version 1.28

EKS Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.3.0 that supports Kubernetes version 1.28. Added support for Ubuntu. For more information, see EKS add-on agent release history.

October 5, 2023

Added S3 and AWS CloudTrail machine learning (ML)-based findings types to the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (UAE) Regions

The following S3 and CloudTrail findings that identify the anomalous behavior using the GuardDuty's anomaly detection machine learning (ML) model are now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (UAE) Regions:

September 20, 2023

GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring introduces managing GuardDuty security agent at the cluster level

EKS Runtime Monitoring adds support to manage the GuardDuty security agent for individual EKS clusters to monitor the runtime events from only these selective clusters. EKS Runtime Monitoring extends this capability with the support of tags.

September 13, 2023

GuardDuty Malware Protection for EC2 extends support to more AWS Regions

Malware Protection for EC2 is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Spain).

September 11, 2023

GuardDuty is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region

Added Israel (Tel Aviv) Region to the list of AWS Regions where GuardDuty is now available. The following protection plans are also available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region:

For more information about protection plan availability in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region, see Regions and endpoints.

August 24, 2023

GuardDuty added auto-enable configuration for your organization at protection plan level

Update organization configuration for the protection plans in your Region. Possible configuration options are either enable for all accounts, auto-enable for new accounts, or do not auto-enable for any account in your organization.

August 16, 2023

S3 finding types which identify anomalous behavior using GuardDuty's anomaly detection machine learning (ML) model are now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka)

The following findings types are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region:

August 10, 2023

EKS Runtime Monitoring is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne)

EKS Runtime Monitoring within GuardDuty EKS Protection provides runtime threat detection for your Amazon EKS clusters in AWS environment. It is now supported in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.

August 8, 2023

Updated the list of GuardDuty findings that invoke GuardDuty-initiated malware scan

Certain EKS Runtime Monitoring finding types can now invoke GuardDuty-initiated malware scan in your AWS account.

July 19, 2023

GuardDuty supports 10,000 member accounts through AWS Organizations

A GuardDuty administrator account can now manage a maximum of 10,000 member accounts through AWS Organizations. This also includes a maximum of 5000 member accounts that associated with the GuardDuty administrator account by invitation.

June 29, 2023

EKS Runtime Monitoring announces three new finding types.

EKS Runtime Monitoring supports three new finding types that are based on the process injection technique. The new finding types are DefenseEvasion:Runtime/ProcessInjection.Proc, DefenseEvasion:Runtime/ProcessInjection.Ptrace, and DefenseEvasion:Runtime/ProcessInjection.VirtualMemoryWrite.

June 22, 2023

EKS Runtime Monitoring released new agent v1.2.0 that supports Kubernetes version 1.27

EKS Runtime Monitoring released a new agent version 1.2.0 that also supports ARM64-based instances. Added support for Bottlerocket. For more information, see EKS add-on agent release history.

June 16, 2023

GuardDuty console provides a summarized view of your findings.

The summary dashboard in the GuardDuty console provides an aggregated view of the GuardDuty findings. Presently, the dashboard displays data through various widgets for the last 10,000 findings generated for your account (or member accounts if you're a GuardDuty administrator account) for the current Region.

June 12, 2023

EKS Audit Log Monitoring is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Spain)

Enable EKS Audit Log Monitoring (in EKS Protection) for your accounts to monitor EKS audit logs from your Amazon EKS clusters and analyze them for potentially malicious and suspicious activity.

June 1, 2023

EKS Audit Log Monitoring is now available in Middle East (UAE)

EKS Audit Log Monitoring is now available in Middle East (UAE). Enable EKS Audit Log Monitoring for your accounts to monitor EKS audit logs from your Amazon EKS clusters and analyze them for potentially malicious and suspicious activity.

May 3, 2023

GuardDuty Malware Protection for EC2 announces On-demand malware scan

Malware Protection for EC2 helps you detect the potential presence of malware in the Amazon EBS volumes attached to your Amazon EC2 instances and container workloads. It now offers two types of scans – GuardDuty initiated and on-demand. GuardDuty-initiated malware scan initiates an agentless scan in the Amazon EBS volumes automatically only when GuardDuty generates one of the Findings that invoke GuardDuty-initiated malware scan. You can initiate an On-demand malware scan for Amazon EC2 instances in your account by providing the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) associated to that Amazon EC2 instance. For more information about how both the scan types differ, see Malware Protection for EC2.

April 27, 2023

GuardDuty announces Lambda Protection

Lambda Protection helps you identify potential security threats in your AWS Lambda functions.

April 20, 2023

GuardDuty is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region

Added Asia Pacific (Melbourne) to the list of AWS Regions where GuardDuty is available. For information about which features are available in this Region, see Regions and endpoints.

April 19, 2023

GuardDuty added 3 new EC2 findings types

GuardDuty introduces new finding types to detect the use of external DNS resolvers and encrypted DNS technologies. For information about AWS Regions where these finding types are supported, see Regions and endpoints.

April 5, 2023

GuardDuty announces EKS Runtime Monitoring in EKS Protection

EKS Runtime Monitoring within EKS Protection provides runtime threat detection for your Amazon EKS clusters in AWS environment. It uses an Amazon EKS add-on agent (aws-guardduty-agent) that collects Runtime events from your EKS workloads. After GuardDuty receives these runtime events, it monitors and analyzes them to identify potential suspicious security threats. For more information, see Finding details and EKS Runtime Monitoring finding types.

March 30, 2023

GuardDuty adds a new functionality – autoEnableOrganizationMembers

Amazon GuardDuty adds a new organization configuration option that helps GuardDuty administrator accounts audit and enforce (if required) that GuardDuty is enabled for ALL the members of their organization. The best practice now is to use autoEnableOrganizationMembers instead of autoEnable. autoEnable is deprecated but still supported. The following APIs are impacted by this new functionality:

March 23, 2023

The RDS Protection feature in Amazon GuardDuty is now generally available

GuardDuty RDS Protection monitors and profiles RDS login activity to identify suspicious login behavior on your Amazon Aurora database instances. For information about which AWS Regions support RDS Protection, see Regions and endpoints.

March 16, 2023

GuardDuty announces feature activation

Historically, the GuardDuty API allowed configuration of both features and data sources, but now, all new GuardDuty protection types will be configured as features and not as data sources. GuardDuty still supports the data sources via API but will not add a new API. Features activation affects the behavior of the APIs used to enable GuardDuty or a protection type within GuardDuty. If you manage your GuardDuty accounts through API, SDK, or CFN template, see GuardDuty API changes in March 2023.

March 16, 2023

GuardDuty Malware Protection for EC2 is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region

The Malware Protection for EC2 feature in GuardDuty is supported in the Middle East (UAE) Region. For more information, see Regions and endpoints.

March 13, 2023

Amazon GuardDuty has updated the Service-linked role (SLR)

GuardDuty added the following new permissions to support the upcoming GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring feature.

  • Use Amazon EKS actions to manage and retrieve information about the EKS clusters, and manage EKS add-ons on EKS clusters. The EKS actions also retrieve the information about the tags associated with GuardDuty.

    "eks:ListClusters",
"eks:DescribeCluster",
"ec2:DescribeVpcEndpointServices",
"ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups"

March 8, 2023

Amazon GuardDuty has updated the Service-linked role (SLR)

The GuardDuty SLR has been updated to allow creation of Malware Protection for EC2 SLR after Malware Protection for EC2 has been enabled.

February 21, 2023

GuardDuty requires TLS v1.2 or later

To communicate with AWS resources, GuardDuty requires and supports TLS v1.2 or later. For more information, see Data protection and Infrastructure security.

February 14, 2023

GuardDuty is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region

Added Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region to the list of AWS Regions where GuardDuty is available. For more information, see Regions and endpoints.

February 14, 2023

Amazon GuardDuty User Guide is aligned with IAM best practices

Updated guide to align with the IAM best practices. For more information, see Security best practices in IAM.

February 10, 2023

GuardDuty is now available in Europe (Spain) Region

Added Europe (Spain) to the list of AWS Regions where GuardDuty is available. For more information, see Regions and endpoints.

February 8, 2023

GuardDuty is now available in Europe (Zurich) Region

Added Europe (Zurich) to the list of AWS Regions where GuardDuty is available. For more information, see Regions and endpoints.

December 12, 2022

Preview release of a new feature – GuardDuty RDS Protection

GuardDuty RDS Protection monitors and profiles RDS login activity to identify suspicious login behavior on your Amazon Aurora database instances. Presently, it is available for a preview release in five AWS Regions. For more information, see Regions and endpoints.

November 30, 2022

GuardDuty is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region

Added Middle East (UAE) to the list of AWS Regions where GuardDuty is available. For more information, see Regions and endpoints.

October 6, 2022

Added content for a new feature – GuardDuty Malware Protection for EC2

GuardDuty Malware Protection for EC2 is an optional enhancement to Amazon GuardDuty. While GuardDuty identifies the resources at risk, Malware Protection for EC2 detects the malware that may be the source of the compromise. With Malware Protection for EC2 enabled, whenever GuardDuty detects suspicious behavior on an Amazon EC2 instance or a container workload indicative of malware, GuardDuty Malware Protection for EC2 initiates an agentless scan on the EBS volumes attached to impacted EC2 instance or container workloads to detect the presence of malware. For information about how Malware Protection for EC2 works and configuring this feature, see GuardDuty Malware Protection for EC2.

July 26, 2022

Retired one finding type

Exfiltration:S3/ObjectRead.Unusual has been retired.

July 5, 2022

Added new S3 finding types which identify anomalous behavior using GuardDuty's anomaly detection machine learning (ML) model.

Added the following new S3 finding types. These finding types identify if an API request invoked an IAM entity in an anomalous way. The ML model evaluates all API requests in your account and identifies anomalous events that are associated with techniques used by adversaries. To learn more about each of these new findings, see S3 finding types.

July 5, 2022

Added GuardDuty EKS Protection content for GuardDuty

GuardDuty can now generate findings for your Amazon EKS resources through the monitoring of EKS audit logs. To learn how to configure this feature, see EKS Protection in Amazon GuardDuty. For a list of findings GuardDuty can generate for Amazon EKS resources, see Kubernetes findings. New remediation guidance has been added to support remediating these findings in the Kubernetes finding remediation guide.

January 25, 2022

Added 1 new finding

A new finding UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/InstanceCredentialExfiltration.InsideAWS has been added. This finding informs you when your instance credentials are accessed by an AWS account outside your AWS environment.

January 20, 2022

Updated the finding types to help identify issues related to log4j

Amazon GuardDuty has updated the following finding types to help identify and prioritize issues related to CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046: Backdoor:EC2/C&CActivity.B; Backdoor:EC2/C&CActivity.B!DNS; Behavior:EC2/NetworkPortUnusual.

December 22, 2021

Finding Changes

UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/InstanceCredentialExfiltration has been changed to UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/InstanceCredentialExfiltration.OutsideAWS. This improved version of the finding learns the typical locations your credentials are used from to reduce findings from traffic routed through on premise networks. UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/InstanceCredentialExfiltration.OutsideAWS

September 7, 2021

Update to GuardDuty SLR

The GuardDuty SLR has been updated with new actions to improve finding accuracy.

August 3, 2021

Added data source information for each finding type.

Finding descriptions now contain information about data sources that GuardDuty uses to generate that finding.

May 10, 2021

Retired 13 finding types.

13 findings have been retired to be replaced with new AnomalousBehavoir findings. Persistence:IAMUser/NetworkPermissions, Persistence:IAMUser/ResourcePermissions, Persistence:IAMUser/UserPermissions, PrivilegeEscalation:IAMUser/AdministrativePermissions, Recon:IAMUser/NetworkPermissions, Recon:IAMUser/ResourcePermissions, Recon:IAMUser/UserPermissions, ResourceConsumption:IAMUser/ComputeResources, Stealth:IAMUser/LoggingConfigurationModified, Discovery:S3/BucketEnumeration.Unusual, Impact:S3/ObjectDelete.Unusual, Impact:S3/PermissionsModification.Unusual.

March 12, 2021

Added 8 new finding types for anomalous behavior.

Added 8 new IAMUser finding types based on anomalous behavior for IAM principals. CredentialAccess:IAMUser/AnomalousBehavior, DefenseEvasion:IAMUser/AnomalousBehavior, Discovery:IAMUser/AnomalousBehavior, Exfiltration:IAMUser/AnomalousBehavior, Impact:IAMUser/AnomalousBehavior, InitialAccess:IAMUser/AnomalousBehavior, Persistence:IAMUser/AnomalousBehavior, PrivilegeEscalation:IAMUser/AnomalousBehavior.

March 12, 2021

Added EC2 findings based on domain reputation.

Added 4 new Impact finding types based on domain reputation. Impact:EC2/AbusedDomainRequest.Reputation , Impact:EC2/BitcoinDomainRequest.Reputation, Impact:EC2/MaliciousDomainRequest.Reputation. Also added a new EC2 finding for C&CActivity. Impact:EC2/SuspiciousDomainRequest.Reputation

January 27, 2021

Added 4 new finding types.

Added 3 new S3 MaliciousIPCaller findings. Discovery:S3/MaliciousIPCaller, Exfiltration:S3/MaliciousIPCaller, Impact:S3/MaliciousIPCaller. Also added a new EC2 finding for C&CActivity. Backdoor:EC2/C&CActivity.B

December 21, 2020

Retired the UnauthorizedAccess:EC2/TorIPCaller finding type.

The UnauthorizedAccess:EC2/TorIPCaller finding type is now retired from GuardDuty. Learn more.

October 1, 2020

Added the Impact:EC2/WinRmBruteForce finding type.

Added a new Impact finding, Impact:EC2/WinRmBruteForce. Learn more.

September 17, 2020

Added the Impact:EC2/PortSweep finding type.

Added a new Impact finding, Impact:EC2/PortSweep. Learn more.

September 17, 2020

GuardDuty is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions.

Added Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) to the list of AWS Regions in which GuardDuty is available. Learn more

July 31, 2020

Added new usage details for monitoring GuardDuty costs.

You can now use new metrics to query GuardDuty usage cost data for your account and accounts you manage. A new overview of usage costs is available in the console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/. More detailed information can be accessed through the API.

July 31, 2020

Added content covering S3 protection through S3 data event monitoring in GuardDuty.

GuardDuty S3 Protection is now available through the monitoring of S3 data plane events as a new data source. New accounts will have this feature enabled automatically. If you are already using GuardDuty you can enable the new data source for yourself or your member accounts.

July 31, 2020

Added 14 new S3 Findings.

14 new S3 finding types have been added for S3 control plane and data plane sources.

July 31, 2020

Added additional support for S3 findings and changed 2 existing finding types names.

GuardDuty findings now include more details for findings involving S3 buckets. Existing finding types that were related to S3 activity have been renamed: Policy:IAMUser/S3BlockPublicAccessDisabled has been changed to Policy:S3/BucketBlockPublicAccessDisabled. Stealth:IAMUser/S3ServerAccessLoggingDisabled has been changed to Stealth:S3/ServerAccessLoggingDisabled.

May 28, 2020

Added content for AWS Organizations integration.

GuardDuty now integrates with AWS Organizations delegated administrators to allow you to manage GuardDuty accounts within your organization. When you set a delegated administrator as your GuardDuty administrator account you can automatically enable GuardDuty for any organization member to be managed by the delegated administrator account. You can also automatically enable GuardDuty in new AWS Organizations member accounts. Learn more.

April 20, 2020

Added content for the export findings feature.

Added content that describes the Export Findings feature of GuardDuty.

November 14, 2019

Added the UnauthorizedAccess:EC2/MetadataDNSRebind finding type.

Added a new Unauthorized finding, UnauthorizedAccess:EC2/MetadataDNSRebind. Learn more.

October 10, 2019

Added the Stealth:IAMUser/S3ServerAccessLoggingDisabled finding type.

Added a new Stealth finding, Stealth:IAMUser/S3ServerAccessLoggingDisabled. Learn more.

October 10, 2019

Added the Policy:IAMUser/S3BlockPublicAccessDisabled finding type.

Added a new Policy finding, Policy:IAMUser/S3BlockPublicAccessDisabled. Learn more.

October 10, 2019

Retired the Backdoor:EC2/XORDDOS finding type.

The Backdoor:EC2/XORDDOS finding type is now retired from GuardDuty.Learn more

June 12, 2019

Added the PrivilegeEscalation finding type.

The PrivilegeEscalation finding type detects when users attempt to assign escalated, more permissive privileges to their accounts. Learn more

May 14, 2019

GuardDuty is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) Region.

Added Europe (Stockholm) to the list of AWS Regions in which GuardDuty is available. Learn more

May 9, 2019

Added a new finding type, Recon:EC2/PortProbeEMRUnprotectedPort.

This finding informs you that an EMR-related sensitive port on an EC2 Instance is not blocked and is being actively probed. Learn more

May 8, 2019

Added 5 new finding types that detect if your EC2 instances are potentially being used for denial of service (DoS) attacks.

These findings inform you of EC2 instances in your environment that are behaving in a manner that may indicate they is being used to perform Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Learn more

March 8, 2019

Added a new finding type: Policy:IAMUser/RootCredentialUsage

Policy:IAMUser/RootCredentialUsage finding type informs you that the root user sign-in credentials of your AWS account are being used to make programmatic requests to AWS services. Learn more

January 24, 2019

UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/UnusualASNCaller finding type has been retired

The UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/UnusualASNCaller finding type has been retired. You will now be notified about activity invoked from unusual networks via other active GuardDuty finding types. The generated finding type will be based on the category of the API that was invoked from an unusual network. Learn more

December 21, 2018

Added two new finding types: PenTest:IAMUser/ParrotLinux and PenTest:IAMUser/PentooLinux

PenTest:IAMUser/ParrotLinux finding type informs you that a computer running Parrot Security Linux is making API calls using credentials that belong to your AWS account. PenTest:IAMUser/PentooLinux finding type informs you that a machine running Pentoo Linux is making API calls using credentials that belong to your AWS account. Learn more

December 21, 2018

Added support for the Amazon GuardDuty announcements SNS topic

You can now subscribe to the GuardDuty announcements SNS topic to receive notifications about newly released finding types, updates to the existing finding types, and other functionality changes. Notifications are available in all formats that Amazon SNS supports. Learn more

November 21, 2018

Added two new finding types: UnauthorizedAccess:EC2/TorClient and UnauthorizedAccess:EC2/TorRelay

UnauthorizedAccess:EC2/TorClient finding type informs you that an EC2 instance in your AWS environment is making connections to a Tor Guard or an Authority node. UnauthorizedAccess:EC2/TorRelay finding type informs you that an EC2 instance in your AWS environment is making connections to a Tor network in a manner that suggests that it's acting as a Tor relay. Learn more

November 16, 2018

Added a new finding type: CryptoCurrency:EC2/BitcoinTool.B

This finding informs you that an EC2 instance in your AWS environment is querying a domain name that is associated with Bitcoin, or other cryptocurrency-related activity. Learn more

November 9, 2018

Added support for updating the frequency of notifications sent to CloudWatch Events

You can now update the frequency of notifications sent to CloudWatch Events for the subsequent occurrences of existing findings. Possible values are 15 minutes, 1 hour, or the default 6 hours. Learn more

October 9, 2018

Added Region support

Added Region support for AWS GovCloud (US-West) Learn more

July 25, 2018

Added support for AWS CloudFormation StackSets in GuardDuty

You can use the Enable Amazon GuardDuty template to enable GuardDuty simultaneously in multiple accounts. Learn more

June 25, 2018

Added support for GuardDuty auto-archive rules

Customers can now build granular auto-archive rules for suppression of findings. For findings that match an auto-archive rule, GuardDuty automatically marks them as archived. This enables customers to further tune GuardDuty to keep only relevant findings in the current findings table. Learn more

May 4, 2018

GuardDuty is available in the Europe (Paris) Region

GuardDuty is now available in Europe (Paris), allowing you to extend continuous security monitoring and threat detection in this Region. Learn more

March 29, 2018

Creating GuardDuty administrator account and member accounts through AWS CloudFormation is now supported.

For more information, see AWS::GuardDuty::master and AWS::GuardDuty::member.

March 6, 2018

Added nine new CloudTrail-based anomaly detections.

These new finding types are automatically enabled in GuardDuty in all supported Regions. Learn more

February 28, 2018

Added three new threat intelligence detections (finding types).

These new finding types are automatically enabled in GuardDuty in all supported Regions. Learn more

February 5, 2018

Limit increase for GuardDuty member accounts.

With this release, you can have up to 1000 GuardDuty member accounts added per AWS account (GuardDuty administrator account account). Learn more

January 25, 2018

Changes in upload and further management of trusted IP lists and threat lists for GuardDuty administrator account and member accounts.

With this release, Users from administrator account GuardDuty accounts can upload and manage trusted IP lists and threat lists. Users from member GuardDuty accounts can't upload and manage lists. Trusted IP lists and threat lists that are uploaded by the administrator account account are imposed on GuardDuty functionality in its member accounts. Learn more

January 25, 2018

Earlier updates

Change Description Date
Initial publication Initial publication of the Amazon GuardDuty User Guide. November 28, 2017