Amazon GuardDuty RDS Protection now detects data exfiltration and destruction in Aurora and RDS databases

From the source: Amazon Web Services Blog

Amazon GuardDuty announces an expansion of RDS Protection that extends threat detection beyond login anomalies to identify data exfiltration and data destruction attacks targeting Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases. Available as RDS Protection for data activity, this new capability uses machine learning (ML)-based anomaly detection and integrated threat intelligence…

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Originally published by Amazon Web Services Blog on 8 Oct 2026. Techarda links to the original rather than republishing it. Read the full article →

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