G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon GuardDuty

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

57

Reviews

4.1

Star rating

#6

Rank in Cloud Security Monitoring and Analytics

Pros and cons

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    Cons

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      Key stats

      -100.0%

      31

      Enterprise

      1

      Adoption by company size

      SegmentShare of reviews
      Small Business33.3%
      Mid-Market28.1%
      Enterprise38.6%

      Quarterly history

      QuarterReviewsStar rating
      2026 Q214.5

      Satisfaction ratings

      Ease of Use8.9
      Ease of Setup9.0
      Quality of Support9.1
      Meets Requirements9.1

      What reviewers say

      Fast, Agentless Threat Detection with Amazon GuardDuty

      4.5

      “What I like most about Amazon GuardDuty is that it continuously monitors AWS environments and automatically flags suspicious activity without requiring extensive security infrastructure. It reviews AWS logs, network traffic, DNS activity, and account behavior to spot potential th”

      Cloud BI Engineer

      Very useful solution, but not complete

      4.0

      “The facility to deploy the solution and enable it for all new accounts automatically is great. The coverage of Kubernetes workload is also a great addition pretty recent.”

      Vice president

      Best For Anomaly Detection

      4.0

      “Amazon GuardDuty is an intelligent threat discovery offering that uses machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection, third-party data. Collects log data from different services like unusual API calls, IP addresses and notified in case of findings provided cloud-watch event r”

      Tech Consultant