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AWS guardduty documentation change

Service: guardduty · 2025-07-25 · Documentation medium

File: guardduty/latest/ug/doc-history.md

Summary

Added documentation for Malware Protection for S3 supporting scans up to 100 GB (previously 5 GB).

Security assessment

Documents an enhancement to a security feature (malware scanning capacity), improving threat detection capabilities for larger objects. This is a security feature improvement but not a vulnerability fix.

Diff

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+Updated functionality - Malware Protection for S3| Malware Protection for S3 now supports scanning objects up to 100 GB, increased from 5 GB. This includes both individual objects and extracted archive files. For more information, see [Malware Protection for S3 quotas](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/malware-protection-s3-quotas-guardduty.html).| July 23, 2025