What is the main purpose of Amazon GuardDuty?
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Correct answer: Continuously detecting potential threats to AWS accounts and workloads.
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Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts and workloads. It analyzes various data sources, including AWS CloudTrail event logs, VPC Flow Logs, and DNS logs, to identify potential threats like compromised instances, cryptocurrency mining, and unusual API calls. Stopping distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks is primarily handled by AWS Shield. Protecting applications from SQL injection is a function of AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall). Automatically provisioning AWS resources is a task for services like AWS CloudFormation or AWS Service Catalog.
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