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AWS guardduty documentation change

Service: guardduty · 2026-04-22 · Documentation low

File: guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_settingup.md

Summary

Fixed placeholder syntax in CloudWatch Events input transformer example for GuardDuty notifications

Security assessment

This change corrects placeholder syntax in an example for configuring GuardDuty notifications via CloudWatch Events. The fix changes from plain text placeholders to proper CloudWatch Events input transformer syntax (e.g., 'severity' to '<severity>'). This improves documentation accuracy for setting up security alerting but doesn't address any security vulnerability.

Diff

diff --git a/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_settingup.md b/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_settingup.md
index 0d748c21c..1d4b8b628 100644
--- a//guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_settingup.md
+++ b//guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_settingup.md
@@ -451 +451 @@ Adding an input transformer formats the JSON finding data sent from GuardDuty in
-        "You have a severity severity GuardDuty finding type Finding_Type in the Region_Name Region."
+        "You have a severity <severity> GuardDuty finding type <Finding_Type> in the <region> region."
@@ -453,2 +453,2 @@ Adding an input transformer formats the JSON finding data sent from GuardDuty in
-    "Finding_Description."
-    "For more details open the GuardDuty console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/home?region=region#/findings?search=id%3DFinding_ID"
+    "<Finding_description>."
+    "For more details open the GuardDuty console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/home?region=<region>#/findings?search=id%3D<Finding_ID>"