GuardDuty detects threats in your infrastructure. Elastio hunts for compromise in your data. They answer different questions and work best together.
GuardDuty and Elastio each answer a fundamentally different question about what happened during an attack.
“Is someone doing something suspicious in my infrastructure?”
OutcomeSecurity finding, attacker detected
“Has the attacker compromised my data?”
OutcomeProvable recovery, Last Known Clean confirmed
Known malware scan: a GuardDuty finding triggers all Elastio hunt types automatically via Security Hub.
Side-by-side view of what each product covers, across runtime detection, hunt types, and data surface coverage.
| Capability | GuardDuty | Elastio |
|---|---|---|
| Runtime | ||
| API / CloudTrail threat detection | YesUnauthorized calls, privilege escalation | No |
| VPC Flow Log analysis | YesC2 communication, port scanning, exfiltration | No |
| DNS query monitoring | YesMalicious domain resolution | No |
| EKS / container audit log monitoring | YesContainer escape, unauthorized deployments | No |
| Known Malware Scan: Triggered on Finding | YesTriggers Elastio hunts via Security Hub | YesTriggers all Elastio hunt types |
| Hunt Types | ||
| Early Attack Detection | No | YesPre-encryption behavioral signals |
| Zero-Day Ransomware Detection | No | YesEnsemble models, 2,300+ families |
| Encryption Detection | No | YesEntropy analysis across all data surfaces |
| Custom Hunts | No | YesYARA, SQL, regex: user-defined rules |
| Data Coverage | ||
| Live Data | PartialEC2 + S3: malware signatures only | YesAll services, all hunt types |
| Replicated Data | No | YesAll hunt types |
| Backup Data | PartialEC2 malware scan only | YesAll backups, all hunt types |
| Last Known Clean | PartialEC2 only | YesAll services |
Elastio integrates with AWS Security Hub. When GuardDuty raises a finding on an EC2 instance, Elastio automatically triggers a hunt on associated snapshots and backup data, producing a blast radius report and a confirmed Last Known Clean recovery point.
GuardDuty asks "Is someone doing something suspicious in my infrastructure?" Elastio asks "Has the attacker compromised my data?" GuardDuty detects threats in your infrastructure; Elastio hunts for compromise in your data.
No. GuardDuty Malware Protection is triggered by a finding and is not continuous. It does not inspect backup data, replicated snapshots, or object storage.
No. GuardDuty cannot detect encryption-based ransomware that leaves no malware signature.
No. GuardDuty does not identify a Last Known Clean recovery point.
Elastio integrates with AWS Security Hub. When GuardDuty raises a finding on an EC2 instance, Elastio automatically triggers a hunt on associated snapshots and backup data, producing a blast radius report and a confirmed Last Known Clean recovery point. The flow is: GuardDuty Finding, Security Hub, Elastio Hunt, Last Known Clean.
Unauthorized API calls and account access, credential theft and privilege escalation, network anomalies (C2, DNS, VPC flows), lateral movement across AWS accounts, and known malware on flagged EC2/S3: runtime infrastructure-layer threats.
Elastio's ensemble models cover 2,300+ families for zero-day ransomware detection.
A GuardDuty Known Malware Scan finding triggers all of Elastio's hunt types automatically via Security Hub.
All product capabilities are current as of March 2026 and sourced by public documentation. Elastio is not affiliated with or endorsed by AWS.