SAA-C03 Question 20: Detecting Malicious Activity

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A company wants continuous, intelligent monitoring of their AWS accounts for compromised instances, unusual API calls, and crypto-mining activity, with minimal setup. Which service should they enable?

A) AWS Config.

B) Amazon GuardDuty.

C) AWS Trusted Advisor.

D) Amazon CloudWatch alarms only.

Correct Answer: B

Explanation: Amazon GuardDuty is a managed threat-detection service that continuously analyzes CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and DNS logs using ML to flag malicious behavior — enabled with one click. (A) Config tracks configuration/compliance. (C) Trusted Advisor gives best-practice checks. (D) CloudWatch alarms require you to define every condition manually.