# guardduty-enabled-centralized
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Checks if Amazon GuardDuty is enabled in your Amazon account and Amazon Region. If you provide an Amazon account for centralization, the rule evaluates the GuardDuty results in the centralized account. The rule is COMPLIANT when GuardDuty is enabled. 



**Identifier:** GUARDDUTY\_ENABLED\_CENTRALIZED

**Trigger type:** Periodic

**Amazon Web Services Region:** All supported Amazon regions except Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region

**Parameters:**

CentralMonitoringAccount (Optional)Type: String  
Comma separated list of Amazon Accounts (12-digit) where Amazon GuardDuty results are allowed to be centralized.

## Amazon CloudFormation template
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To create Amazon Config managed rules with Amazon CloudFormation templates, see [Creating Amazon Config Managed Rules With Amazon CloudFormation Templates](aws-config-managed-rules-cloudformation-templates.md).