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detecting-cloud-threats-with-guardduty
This skill teaches security teams how to deploy and operationalize Amazon GuardDuty for continuous threat detection across AWS accounts and workloads. It covers enabling protection plans for S3, EKS, EC2 runtime monitoring, and Lambda, interpreting finding severity levels, and building automated response workflows using EventBridge and Lambda.
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# Detecting Cloud Threats with GuardDuty
## When to Use
- When establishing continuous threat detection for new or existing AWS accounts
- When investigating GuardDuty findings related to compromised instances, credential abuse, or data exfiltration
- When building automated incident response playbooks triggered by GuardDuty findings
- When extending threat coverage to container workloads running on EKS, ECS, or Fargate
- When enabling malware scanning for EBS volumes attached to suspicious EC2 instances
**Do not use** for Azure or GCP threat detection (see securing-azure-with-microsoft-defender or auditing-gcp-security-posture), for static code analysis, or for compliance posture monitoring (see implementing-aws-security-hub).
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