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AWS guardduty medium security documentation change

Service: guardduty · 2026-02-25 · Security-related medium

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

Summary

Added 'ALL_FILES_SKIPPED_OR_FAILED' scan status indicator

Security assessment

New status improves monitoring of scan failures, helping identify potential security gaps in malware detection coverage.

Diff

diff --git a/guardduty/latest/ug/monitoring-malware-protection-backup-scans.md b/guardduty/latest/ug/monitoring-malware-protection-backup-scans.md
index ce0612318..34eaa500f 100644
--- a//guardduty/latest/ug/monitoring-malware-protection-backup-scans.md
+++ b//guardduty/latest/ug/monitoring-malware-protection-backup-scans.md
@@ -39,0 +40 @@ UNRELATED_RESOURCES |  For incremental scans - the base resource's arn differs f
+ALL_FILES_SKIPPED_OR_FAILED |  All files in the scan were either skipped or failed