Tech riderRev. 2 Oct 2026
Amazon GuardDuty
- 1Runs onAPI, Web
- 2Costsfree trial
2 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: aws.amazon.com
Overview
Amazon GuardDuty is ranked #4 of 21 in cloud workload protection platforms on Specifiction. It runs on API, Web. There is no free plan. A free trial is offered.
Amazon GuardDuty plans and pricing
All plansAmazon GuardDuty Free Pay as you go; charges depend on the volume of logs, events, workloads, or data analyzed, and vary by data source and AWS Region. 30-day free trial in supported Regions for new accounts; protection plans can have separate trials; Malware Protection for Amazon S3 has a free tier without a trial period aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
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Facts
- Purpose
- Amazon GuardDuty continuously monitors AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and generates detailed security findings.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Detection methods
- GuardDuty uses AI, machine learning, anomaly detection, and AWS and third-party threat intelligence to detect threats.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Data sources
- GuardDuty analyzes CloudTrail logs, VPC Flow Logs, DNS query logs, S3 data events, Aurora login events, AWS Backup data, AI workload activity, and runtime activity.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Compute protection
- Runtime Monitoring covers EKS, ECS workloads including those on Fargate, and EC2 instances.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Malware protection
- GuardDuty can scan EC2 attached EBS volumes after suspicious activity and detect potentially harmful uploads to S3 buckets.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
- AI protection
- GuardDuty AI Protection detects threats such as anomalous model invocations, cost harvesting attacks, and prompt injection attempts in Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker workloads.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- GuardDuty findings can be routed to AWS Security Hub, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Detective, or third-party solutions.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Security operations
- The service provides detailed, actionable alerts designed to integrate with existing event management and workflow systems.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Foundational GuardDuty protections require no additional security software or infrastructure to deploy and maintain.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Pricing model
- GuardDuty is pay as you go, with prices based on analyzed logs, events, workloads, or data and varying by AWS Region.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Limits
- Some features are unavailable in some Regions, and pricing varies by data source and Region.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- GuardDuty is for organizations seeking threat detection across AWS accounts, workloads, and data, including compute, storage, database, and AI workloads.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
- Maker history
- Amazon Web Services says it launched in 2006.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
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Sources
- aws.amazon.com/guardduty/· checked 2 Oct 2026
- aws.amazon.com/guardduty/features/· checked 2 Oct 2026
- aws.amazon.com/guardduty/faqs/· checked 2 Oct 2026
- aws.amazon.com/guardduty/pricing/· checked 2 Oct 2026
- aws.amazon.com/about-aws/· checked 2 Oct 2026