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AWS guardduty medium security documentation change

Service: guardduty · 2025-08-28 · Security-related medium

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

Summary

Updated documentation history to deprecate AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess policy and revise policy update notes

Security assessment

Explicitly deprecates a policy (AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess) due to security improvements in its replacement (v2 policy). Also updates references to policy changes for Malware Protection, which is a security feature.

Diff

diff --git a/guardduty/latest/ug/doc-history.md b/guardduty/latest/ug/doc-history.md
index cf4d254d5..5ae1296e1 100644
--- a//guardduty/latest/ug/doc-history.md
+++ b//guardduty/latest/ug/doc-history.md
@@ -12,0 +13 @@ Change| Description| Date
+AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess - Deprecated| This policy has been replaced by [AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess_v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess-v2). After August 26, 2025, this policy can not be attached to any new users, groups, or roles.| August 26, 2025  
@@ -112 +113 @@ New feature - Malware Protection for S3| GuardDuty announces general availabilit
-Updated AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess policy| Added permission that allows you to pass an IAM role to GuardDuty when you enable Malware Protection for S3. For more information about this policy update, see [GuardDuty updates to AWS managed policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess).| June 10, 2024  
+Updated AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess policy| Added permission that allows you to pass an IAM role to GuardDuty when you enable Malware Protection for S3. For more information about this policy update, see AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess.| June 10, 2024  
@@ -245 +246 @@ GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring support expanded to 19 AWS Regions| Runtime Monitor
-[Updated the AWS managed policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-updates)| GuardDuty added a new permission, `organizations:ListAccounts` to the [AmazonGuardDutyFullAccessPolicy](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess) and [AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess).| November 16, 2023  
+[Updated the AWS managed policies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-updates)| GuardDuty added a new permission, `organizations:ListAccounts` to the AmazonGuardDutyFullAccessPolicy and [AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess).| November 16, 2023