Suspending GuardDuty for member account - Amazon GuardDuty
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Suspending GuardDuty for member account

As a delegated GuardDuty administrator account, you can suspend the GuardDuty service for a member account in your organization. If you do this, the member account stills stays in your GuardDuty organization. You can also re-enable GuardDuty for these member accounts at a later time. However, if you eventually want to disassociate (remove) this member account, then after following the steps in this section, you must follow the steps in Disassociating (removing) member account from administrator account.

When you suspend GuardDuty in a member account, you can expect the following changes:

  • GuardDuty no longer monitors the security of the Amazon environment, or generates new findings.

  • The existing findings in the member account remain intact.

  • A GuardDuty suspended member account does't incur any charges for GuardDuty.

    If the member account has enabled Malware Protection for S3 for one or more buckets in their account, then suspending GuardDuty doesn't impact the configuration of Malware Protection for S3. The member account will continue incurring the usage cost for Malware Protection for S3. For the member account to stop using Malware Protection for S3, they must disable this feature for the protected buckets. For more information, see Disabling Malware Protection for S3 for a protected bucket.

Choose a preferred method to suspend GuardDuty for a member account in your organization.

Console

  1. Open the GuardDuty console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/guardduty/.

    To sign in, use the credentials of the delegated GuardDuty administrator account.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Accounts.

  3. In the Accounts page, select one or more accounts for which you want to suspend GuardDuty.

  4. Choose the Actions dropdown menu and then, choose Suspend GuardDuty.

  5. Choose Suspend GuardDuty to confirm the selection.

    This will change the Status of the member account to Disabled (suspended).

    Repeat the preceding steps in each additional Region where you want to disassociate or remove the member account.

API

  1. To retrieve the member account account ID for which you want to suspend GuardDuty, use the ListMembers API. Include the OnlyAssociated parameter in your request. If you set this parameter's value to true, GuardDuty returns a members array that provides details about only those accounts that are currently GuardDuty members.

    Alternatively, you can use Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) to run the following command:

    aws guardduty list-members --only-associated true --region us-east-1

    Replace us-east-1 by the Region where you want to suspend GuardDuty for this account.

  2. To suspend one or more GuardDuty member accounts, run StopMonitoringMembers to suspend GuardDuty for a member account.

    Alternatively, you can use Amazon CLI to run the following command:

    aws guardduty stop-monitoring-members --detector-id 12abc34d567e8fa901bc2d34EXAMPLE --account-ids 111122223333 --region us-east-1

    Replace us-east-1 by the Region where you want to suspend this account. If you have a list of account IDs that you want to remove, separate them by a space character.

If you further want to disassociate (remove) this member account, then follow the steps in Disassociating (removing) member account from administrator account.