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AWS guardduty documentation change

Service: guardduty · 2025-08-28 · Documentation low

File: guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_sns.md

Summary

Updated policy reference from AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess to AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess_v2 in SNS notification example

Security assessment

Change documents updated IAM policy requirements for Malware Protection feature, which is a security-related capability. However, there is no evidence this addresses a specific security vulnerability.

Diff

diff --git a/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_sns.md b/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_sns.md
index 9b0c77fb8..8701f02d9 100644
--- a//guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_sns.md
+++ b//guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_sns.md
@@ -105 +105 @@ An example GuardDuty general notification message:
-        "Message" : "{\"version\":\"1\",\"type\":\"GENERAL\",\"message\":[{\"title\":\"Updated AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess policy\",\"body\":\"Added permission that allows you to pass an IAM role to GuardDuty when you enable Malware Protection for S3.\",\"links\":[\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com//guardduty/latest/ug/security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess\"]}]}",
+        "Message" : "{\"version\":\"1\",\"type\":\"GENERAL\",\"message\":[{\"title\":\"Updated AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess_v2 policy\",\"body\":\"Added permission that allows you to pass an IAM role to GuardDuty when you enable Malware Protection for S3.\",\"links\":[\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com//guardduty/latest/ug/security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess-v2\"]}]}",
@@ -124 +124 @@ The parsed Message value (with escaped quotes removed) is shown below:
-                        "https://docs.aws.amazon.com//guardduty/latest/ug/security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess"
+                        "https://docs.aws.amazon.com//guardduty/latest/ug/security-iam-awsmanpol.html#security-iam-awsmanpol-AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess-v2"