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Elastio vs. AWS GuardDuty

GuardDuty detects threats in your infrastructure. Elastio hunts for compromise in your data. They answer different questions — and work best together.

Two questions. Two products.

GuardDuty and Elastio each answer a fundamentally different question about what happened during an attack.

AWS GuardDuty

"Is someone doing something suspicious in my infrastructure?"

·Unauthorized API calls and account access

·Credential theft and privilege escalation

·Network anomalies — C2, DNS, VPC flows

·Lateral movement across AWS accounts

·Known malware on flagged EC2 / S3

Outcome: Security finding — attacker detected

Elastio

"Has the attacker compromised my data?"

·Zero-day ransomware inside files

·Corruption in backups, snapshots, object storage

·Early attack signals across workloads

·Known malware across all data surfaces

·Last Known Clean recovery point — provable

Outcome: Provable recovery — Last Known Clean confirmed

SharedKnown malware scan — GuardDuty finding triggers all Elastio hunt types automatically via Security Hub

Capability comparison

Side-by-side view of what each product covers — across runtime detection, hunt types, and data surface coverage.

CapabilityGuardDutyElastio

API / CloudTrail threat detection

✓

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VPC Flow Log analysis

✓

—

DNS query monitoring

✓

—

EKS / container audit log monitoring

✓

—

Known Malware Scan — Triggered on Finding

✓

Early Attack Detection

—

✓

Zero-Day Ransomware Detection

—

✓

Encryption Detection

—

✓

Custom Hunts

—

✓

Live Data

✓

Replicated Data

—

✓

Backup Data

✓

Last Known Clean

✓

✓ Yes~ Partial— No

The gap GuardDuty does not close

✕GuardDuty Malware Protection is triggered by a finding. It is not continuous.

✕It does not inspect backup data, replicated snapshots, or object storage.

✕It cannot detect encryption-based ransomware that leaves no malware signature.

✕It does not identify a Last Known Clean recovery point.

How they work together

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 Finding→Security Hub→Elastio Hunt→Last Known Clean

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