AWS guardduty documentation change

Service: guardduty · 2026-01-28 · Documentation medium

File: guardduty/latest/ug/malware-protection-backup.md

Summary

Expanded malware scanning coverage to include all Amazon EC2 AMIs (previously only AWS Backup-created AMIs).

Security assessment

Enhances security documentation by broadening malware protection scope, but no evidence of addressing a specific vulnerability. Improves security posture through expanded coverage.

Diff

diff --git a/guardduty/latest/ug/malware-protection-backup.md b/guardduty/latest/ug/malware-protection-backup.md
index 1b3232414..05f1d92e6 100644
--- a//guardduty/latest/ug/malware-protection-backup.md
+++ b//guardduty/latest/ug/malware-protection-backup.md
@@ -94 +94 @@ Malware Protection for Backup can scan the following AWS Backup–protected reso
-  * Amazon EC2 AMIs created using AWS Backup
+  * Amazon EC2 AMIs