Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring now supports Ubuntu and Debian OS
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This article announces that Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring now supports Ubuntu and Debian operating systems for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) workloads.
Specifically, the article covers:
- GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring will automatically upgrade the security agent for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and Debian 11, 12 with automated agent management.
- For manual agent management, users need to upgrade the agent following the provided documentation.
- Users can view the current agent version running on their EC2 instances in the GuardDuty console.
- New users can enable GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring for a 30-day free trial.
- GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring helps identify potential threats, including suspicious network activity and malicious file downloads/executions.
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