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AWS guardduty medium security documentation change

Service: guardduty · 2025-03-19 · Security-related medium

File: guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty-summary.md

Summary

Reinstated 5,000 findings limit in Summary dashboard documentation

Security assessment

Reduced visibility of security findings could impact threat detection

Diff

diff --git a/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty-summary.md b/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty-summary.md
index 2827ebc32..49162cc64 100644
--- a/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty-summary.md
+++ b/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty-summary.md
@@ -9 +9 @@ OverviewFindingsMost common finding typesFindings by severityAccounts with most
-The GuardDuty **Summary** dashboard provides an aggregated view of the GuardDuty findings generated in your AWS account in the current AWS Region. 
+The GuardDuty **Summary** dashboard provides an aggregated view of the GuardDuty findings generated in your AWS account in the current AWS Region. The dashboard supports a volume of up to 5,000 findings. 
@@ -86 +78 @@ In this list, you can select any finding to view its details.
-This section provides a pie chart illustrating the top five most common finding types generated in the current Region. When hovering over each sector of the pie chart, you can observe the following:
+This section provides a pie chart illustrating the top five most common finding types, based on up to last 5,000 GuardDuty findings generated in the current Region. When hovering over each sector of the pie chart, you can observe the following: