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AWS guardduty documentation change

Service: guardduty · 2026-04-25 · Documentation low

File: guardduty/latest/ug/slr-permissions.md

Summary

Updated description of Amazon ECS actions to include retrieving information about tasks and task definitions

Security assessment

This change clarifies the permissions documentation for GuardDuty's service-linked role, specifically noting the ability to retrieve information about ECS tasks and task definitions. This is security documentation that explains what permissions the service requires, but doesn't indicate a security issue was addressed.

Diff

diff --git a/guardduty/latest/ug/slr-permissions.md b/guardduty/latest/ug/slr-permissions.md
index a71c236be..bfc7ff63b 100644
--- a//guardduty/latest/ug/slr-permissions.md
+++ b//guardduty/latest/ug/slr-permissions.md
@@ -29 +29 @@ The permission policies help GuardDuty perform the following tasks:
-  * Use Amazon ECS actions to manage and retrieve information about the Amazon ECS clusters, and manage the Amazon ECS account setting with `guarddutyActivate`. The actions pertaining to Amazon ECS also retrieve the information about the tags associated with GuardDuty.
+  * Use Amazon ECS actions to manage and retrieve information about the Amazon ECS clusters, retrieve information about tasks and task definitions, and manage the Amazon ECS account setting with `guarddutyActivate`. The actions pertaining to Amazon ECS also retrieve the information about the tags associated with GuardDuty.