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AWS guardduty documentation change

Service: guardduty · 2026-04-10 · Documentation low

File: guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty-configure-security-agent-eks-addon.md

Summary

Added documentation for the new 'disableCpuLimits' parameter for GuardDuty security agent EKS add-on, allowing CPU limits to be disabled for the security agent pod

Security assessment

This change documents a new configuration parameter for the GuardDuty security agent that allows disabling CPU limits. While this relates to security monitoring infrastructure, there is no evidence in the diff that this addresses a specific security vulnerability or incident. The change appears to be a feature enhancement providing more flexibility in resource allocation for security monitoring pods.

Diff

diff --git a/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty-configure-security-agent-eks-addon.md b/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty-configure-security-agent-eks-addon.md
index e831ba682..417e8a734 100644
--- a//guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty-configure-security-agent-eks-addon.md
+++ b//guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty-configure-security-agent-eks-addon.md
@@ -39 +39,11 @@ Requests |  200m |  Between 200m and 10000m, both inclusive
-Limits |  1000m  
+Limits |  1000m |  Between 200m and 10000m, both inclusive  
+`disableCpuLimits` |  `false` |  `true` or `false`  
+  
+The `disableCpuLimits` parameter is available for GuardDuty security agent version 1.12.1-eksbuild.3 and later. On earlier versions, the add-on does not support this parameter, and the Amazon EKS add-on APIs (`CreateAddon`, `UpdateAddon`) return a validation error if you specify it.
+
+When you set `disableCpuLimits` to `true`, the security agent pod does not enforce a CPU limit. Other resource settings are unaffected.
+
+To disable CPU limits, use the following configuration:
+    
+    
+    {"resources":{"disableCpuLimits":true}}