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AWS AWSCloudFormation documentation change

Service: AWSCloudFormation · 2026-05-16 · Documentation low

File: AWSCloudFormation/latest/TemplateReference/aws-resource-guardduty-threatentityset.md

Summary

Expanded threat entity scope from IPs/domains to generic threat entities

Security assessment

Broadens documentation of security feature (custom threat detection) to cover additional threat types, enhancing threat visibility. No evidence of addressing specific vulnerabilities.

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-The `AWS::GuardDuty::ThreatEntitySet` resource helps you create a list of known malicious IP addresses and domain names in your AWS environment. Once you activate this list, GuardDuty will use the entries in this list as an additional source of threat detection and generate findings when there is an activity associated with these known malicious IP addresses and domain names. GuardDuty continues to monitor independently of this custom threat entity set.
+The `AWS::GuardDuty::ThreatEntitySet` resource helps you create a list of known malicious threat entities in your AWS environment. Once you activate this list, GuardDuty will use the entries in this list as an additional source of threat detection and generate findings when there is an activity associated with these known malicious threat entities. GuardDuty continues to monitor independently of this custom threat entity set.