AI Briefing — Amazon Detective reaches general availability
AWS announced Amazon Detective as generally available, offering managed graph-based investigation across VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail, and GuardDuty findings. Security teams can enable the service to accelerate incident investigations without building their own graph analytics pipeline.
Executive briefing: Amazon Detective became generally available, providing a managed graph analysis service that ingests CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, GuardDuty, and IAM data to visualize entities and relationships. The service uses machine learning to surface anomalous activity paths for faster security investigations.
Why it matters
- Investigation speed: Teams can pivot through relationships without building custom log pipelines or graph databases.
- Cloud coverage: Detective stitches together AWS-native telemetry, reducing blind spots between GuardDuty findings and network flow context.
- Operational cost: Managed ingestion and storage reduce the burden of maintaining SIEM integrations for exploratory investigations.
Operator actions
- Enable service: Turn on Amazon Detective in each AWS account and region handling production workloads.
- Integrate workflows: Link GuardDuty and Security Hub findings to Detective and update playbooks to include Detective pivot steps.
- Access control: Define IAM roles and SCPs limiting who can view investigation data, and enable AWS Organizations integration for centralized visibility.
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