Podcast: We developed Amazon GuardDuty to meet scaling demands, now it could assist with compliance considerations such as GDPR

It isn’t simple to meet the scaling requirements of AWS when creating a threat detection monitoring service. Our service teams have to maintain the ability to deliver at a rapid pace. That led to the question what can be done to make a security service as frictionless as possible to business demands?

Core parts of our internal solution can now be found in Amazon GuardDuty, which doesn’t require deployment of software or security infrastructure. Instead, GuardDuty uses machine learning to monitor metadata for access activity such as unusual API calls. This method turned out to be highly effective. Because it worked well for us, we thought it would work well for our customers, too. Additionally, when we externalized the service, we enabled it to be turned on with a single click. The customer response to Amazon GuardDuty has been positive with rapid adoption since launch in late 2017.

The service’s monitoring capabilities and threat detections could become increasingly helpful to customers concerned with data privacy or facing regulations such as the EU’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR). Listen to the podcast with Senior Product Manager Michael Fuller to learn how Amazon GuardDuty could be leveraged to meet your compliance considerations.