Amazon Guard Duty Malware Protection

GuardDuty is an AWS (Amazon Web Services) service that provides intelligent threat detection and monitoring for AWS resources and accounts. However, GuardDuty is primarily focused on detecting threats and vulnerabilities in your AWS infrastructure and services, rather than providing direct malware protection for individual instances or endpoints.

Amazon GuardDuty is designed to enhance your AWS security posture by providing intelligent threat detection, centralized monitoring, real-time alerts, and easy integration with other AWS services. By leveraging GuardDuty, you can proactively identify and mitigate potential security risks in your AWS environment.

GuardDuty Malware Protection offers a agentless approach to scan the system at the service account level.

Enable Malware detection by providing ARN of an EC2 instance,

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Type of Malware Scans,

Malware Protection offers two types of scans to detect potentially malicious

activity in your Amazon EC2 instances and container workloads.

Create an EC2 instance,

Go to Guardduty, start a Malware Scan,

When Malware Scan starts successfully,