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

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
Learn more about the features and capabilities that GuardDuty offers.
Learn about customers using GuardDuty
See how global companies are using GuardDuty to protect their AWS accounts with intelligent threat detection.
Get started with GuardDuty on the AWS Free Tier
Try GuardDuty for 30 days at no cost and get full access to GuardDuty features and detection findings.