AWS guardduty: Bump GuardDuty EKS agent addon version to v1.17.1

Service: guardduty · 2026-09-27 · Documentation low

File: guardduty/latest/ug/eksrunmon-deploy-security-agent.md

Summary

Updates the example aws eks create-addon command to reference the newer aws-guardduty-agent addon version v1.17.1-eksbuild.2 instead of v1.16.0-eksbuild.2.

Security assessment

A routine version bump in a deployment example for the GuardDuty security agent; no vulnerability, CVE, or security guidance is referenced.

Evidence

+                aws eks create-addon --region us-east-1 --cluster-name myClusterName --addon-name aws-guardduty-agent --addon-version v1.17.1-eksbuild.2 --configuration-values 'file://example.json'

Diff

diff --git a/guardduty/latest/ug/eksrunmon-deploy-security-agent.md b/guardduty/latest/ug/eksrunmon-deploy-security-agent.md
index c9963acc1..d31094aae 100644
--- a//guardduty/latest/ug/eksrunmon-deploy-security-agent.md
+++ b//guardduty/latest/ug/eksrunmon-deploy-security-agent.md
@@ -72 +72 @@ You can use the following AWS CLI example when using configurable values support
-                aws eks create-addon --region us-east-1 --cluster-name myClusterName --addon-name aws-guardduty-agent --addon-version v1.16.0-eksbuild.2 --configuration-values 'file://example.json'
+                aws eks create-addon --region us-east-1 --cluster-name myClusterName --addon-name aws-guardduty-agent --addon-version v1.17.1-eksbuild.2 --configuration-values 'file://example.json'