Amazon GuardDuty in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon GuardDuty is a continuous security monitoring service. Amazon GuardDuty can help to identify unexpected and potentially unauthorized or malicious activity in your AWS environment.
How Amazon GuardDuty differs for AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
The following list indicates the differences in the feature availability in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions:
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The Extended Threat Detection coverage for EKS clusters supports detecting multi-stage attacks through available EKS Protection finding types (EKS audit log monitoring) and AWS API activity in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
Runtime Monitoring (including EKS Runtime Monitoring) is not supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
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The following EKS Protection (EKS audit log monitoring) finding types are not available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions:
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CredentialAccess:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.SecretsAccessed
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PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.RoleBindingCreated
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PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.WorkloadDeployed!PrivilegedContainer
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Persistence:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.WorkloadDeployed!ContainerWithSensitiveMount
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PrivilegeEscalation:Kubernetes/AnomalousBehavior.RoleCreated
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RDS Protection is not supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
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In Malware Protection for EC2, the support for scanning instances with
productCodeasmarketplaceis not supported. GuardDuty will skip the malware scan for such instances and log the skip reason asUNSUPPORTED_PRODUCT_CODE_TYPE. -
Cross-region data transfer is not supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
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Member accounts invitation notifications through AWS Health Dashboard and email are not supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
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In AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, AWS doesn't use or store Customer Content processed by Amazon GuardDuty to develop and improve the service or technologies of AWS or its affiliates. Opt-out policies are currently not applicable to these Regions.
Documentation for Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon GuardDuty documentation
Export-controlled content
For AWS Services architected within the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, the following list explains how certain components of data may leave the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions in the normal course of the service offerings. The list can be used as a guide to help meet applicable customer compliance obligations. Data not included in the following list remains within the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
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This service can generate metadata from customer-defined configurations. AWS suggests customers do not enter export-controlled information in console fields, descriptions, resource names, and tagging information.
No data will leave the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions for this service.
