Pricing
Amazon GuardDuty pricing
As aws.amazon.com lists them, read 2 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon GuardDuty | Pay as you go; charges depend on the volume of logs, events, workloads, or data analyzed, and vary by data source and AWS Region. · 30-day free trial in supported Regions for new accounts; protection plans can have separate trials; Malware Protection for Amazon S3 has a free tier without a trial period | Free |
| 30-day free trial | 30 days per AWS account and Region for most protection plans · Malware Protection for S3 has a separate free tier · on-demand EC2 scans and AWS Backup malware scans excluded | Free |
| Malware Protection for EBS | per GB scanned · additional EBS snapshot charges may apply | $0.03 a month |
| Malware Protection for S3 | per GB scanned plus $0.215 per 1,000 objects evaluated · US East example · regional pricing varies | $0.09 a month |
| Foundational threat detection — VPC Flow Logs and DNS query logs | per GB; $1.00 first 500 GB, $0.50 next 2,000 GB, $0.25 thereafter · volume discounts · regional pricing varies | $1 a month |
| Foundational threat detection — CloudTrail management events | per 1 million events, prorated · US East example · regional pricing varies | $4 a month |