30-day free trial

You can choose to enable or disable GuardDuty-initiated malware scan for an AWS account in a supported AWS Region at any time. If you have an organization, each member account has its own 30-day free trial.

To understand how 30-day free trial works, consider the following scenarios:

• When you enable GuardDuty for the first time (new GuardDuty account), GuardDuty-initiated malware scan also gets enabled and is included in the 30-day free trial associated with the GuardDuty service.

• An existing GuardDuty account can enable GuardDuty-initiated malware scan for the first time with a 30-day free trial. When you enable this feature in a different Region for the first time, you will get a 30-day free trial in that Region.

• If you've an existing GuardDuty account that has been using Malware Protection for EC2 before On-demand malware scan was announced and this GuardDuty account already uses the pricing model for its AWS Region, you can continue using GuardDuty-initiated malware scan.

Note

Even if you're on a 30-day free trial period, the standard usage cost for creating the Amazon EBS volume snapshots and their retention applies. For more information, see Amazon EBS pricing.

For information about enabling GuardDuty-initiated malware scan, see Configuring GuardDuty-initiated malware scan.