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AWS guardduty documentation change

Service: guardduty · 2025-11-22 · Documentation low

File: guardduty/latest/ug/what-is-guardduty.md

Summary

Added documentation for 'Malware Protection for AWS Backup' feature

Security assessment

Introduces a new security feature for malware detection in backups, expanding GuardDuty's capabilities but not resolving a security issue.

Diff

diff --git a/guardduty/latest/ug/what-is-guardduty.md b/guardduty/latest/ug/what-is-guardduty.md
index e450f22dd..47f39f1b4 100644
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+++ b//guardduty/latest/ug/what-is-guardduty.md
@@ -62 +62,2 @@ Protection plan | Description
-[Malware Protection for S3](./gdu-malware-protection-s3.html) |  Detects potential presence of malware in the newly uploaded objects within your Amazon S3 buckets.  
+[Malware Protection for S3](./gdu-malware-protection-s3.html) |  Detects potential presence of malware in the newly uploaded objects within your Amazon S3 buckets. There is an option to use this feature on-demand.  
+[Malware Protection for AWS Backup](./malware-protection-backup.html) |  Detects potential presence of malware by scanning backup resources, including EBS Snapshots, EC2 AMI's, and AWS Backup recovery points. There is an option to use this feature on-demand.