Introduction to Amazon GuardDuty for threat detection

Amazon GuardDuty is a powerful threat detection service that’s designed to monitor your AWS account for malicious activities and unauthorized behavior. GuardDuty protects your AWS environment by leveraging powerful machine learning and anomaly detection techniques, including integrated threat intelligence mechanisms, to identify any potential threats. Let’s discuss some integral parts of this process.

Logging with AWS CloudTrail and CloudWatch

In the context of GuardDuty and broader AWS security, AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail play a critical role in terms of monitoring, logging, and observing activities within your AWS environment. CloudTrail captures all the API calls or events in your AWS environment and provides a detailed event history of your AWS account activity. This allows you to perform security analysis, resource change tracking, compliance auditing, and even troubleshooting. On the other hand, CloudWatch...