Enabling S3 Protection for a standalone account - Amazon GuardDuty
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Enabling S3 Protection for a standalone account

A standalone account owns the decision to enable or disable a protection plan in their Amazon Web Services account in a specific Amazon Web Services Region.

If your account is associated with a GuardDuty administrator account through Amazon Organizations, or by the method of invitation, this section doesn't apply to your account. For more information, see Enabling S3 Protection in multiple-account environments.

After you enable S3 Protection, GuardDuty will start monitoring Amazon CloudTrail data events for the S3 buckets in your account.

Choose your preferred access method to configure S3 Protection for a standalone account.

Console

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the GuardDuty console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/guardduty/.

  2. From the Region selector in the upper-right corner, select a Region where you want to enable S3 Protection.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose S3 Protection.

  4. The S3 Protection page provides the current status of S3 Protection for your account. Choose Enable or Disable to enable or disable S3 Protection at any point in time.

  5. Choose Confirm to confirm your selection.

API/CLI

Run updateDetector by using your valid detector ID for the current Region and passing the features object name as S3_DATA_EVENTS set to ENABLED to enable S3 Protection, respectively.

Note

To find the detectorId for your account and current Region, see the Settings page in the https://console.amazonaws.cn/guardduty/ console, or run the ListDetectors API.

Alternatively, you can use Amazon Command Line Interface. To enable S3 Protection, run the following command, and replace 12abc34d567e8fa901bc2d34e56789f0 with your account's detector ID and us-east-1 with the Region where you want to enable S3 Protection. 

aws guardduty update-detector --detector-id 12abc34d567e8fa901bc2d34e56789f0 --region us-east-1 --features '[{"Name" : "S3_DATA_EVENTS", "Status" : "ENABLED"}]'