Document history - Amazon Fraud Detector

Document history

The following table describes important changes in Amazon Fraud Detector User Guide. We also update the Amazon Fraud Detector User Guide frequently to address the feedback that you send us.

ChangeDescriptionDate

New variable and data types

Amazon Fraud Detector introduces new variable types and a datatype you can use to extract useful information.

June 5, 2023

Event orchestration

The Event orchestration makes it easy for you to send events to AWS services for downstream processing, using Amazon EventBridge.

May 30, 2023

Lists

The Lists resource enables you to reference a set of values such as IP addresses or email addresses, as part of a rule. Use lists in a rule to allow or deny access or a transaction.

February 14, 2023

Data Models Explorer

The Data Models Explorer provides insights into the data elements required by Amazon Fraud Detector to create your fraud detection model. Use data models explorer before you prepare your event dataset.

December 15, 2022

Account Takeover Insights model

Use Account takeover insights (ATI) model to detect accounts that are compromised through malicious takeovers, phishing, or from credentials being stolen.

July 21, 2022

Chapter update

Updated the introductory chapter with additional information about Amazon Fraud Detector

April 11, 2022

Variable enrichment

Enable enrichment of some of the raw data you provide to boost performance for the models that use these data elements and that were trained before February 8, 2022.

February 8, 2022

Opt-out policies

Use opt-out policies to opt out of having your event data used to develop or improve the quality of Amazon Fraud Detector.

January 6, 2022

Confused deputy prevention

Create policies to prevent a third-party or a cross-service entity from manipulating an entity with permissions to act on its behalf to gain access to resources in your account.

December 6, 2021

Create event dataset

Use the guidance provided in Create event dataset to prepare and gather data for training your model.

November 22, 2021

Prediction explanations

Use Prediction explanations to get insight into how each event variable impacted your model's fraud prediction scores.

November 10, 2021

Troubleshoot

Use information in Troubleshoot training data issues to help diagnose and resolve issues you might see in Amazon Fraud Detector console when you train your model.

October 11, 2021

Transaction fraud insights model

Use Transaction fraud insights (TFI) model to detect online or card-not-present transaction fraud.

October 11, 2021

Stored events

Store your event data in Amazon Fraud Detector and use the stored data to later train your models. By storing event data in Amazon Fraud Detector, you can train models that use auto-computed variables to improve performance, simplify model retraining, and update fraud labels to close the machine learning feedback loop.

October 11, 2021

Model variable importance

Use Model variable importance to gain insight into what is driving performance of your model up or down and which of your model variables contribute the most. And then tweak your model to improve overall performance.

July 9, 2021

Integration with AWS CloudFormation

Use AWS CloudFormation to manage your Amazon Fraud Detector resources.

May 10, 2021

Batch predictions

Use Batch predictions to get predictions for a set of events that do not require real-time scoring.

March 31, 2021

Chapter rework

Rework of Get started and other sections

July 17, 2020

Initial release

Initial release

December 2, 2019