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Enabling Lambda Protection for a standalone account

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Enabling Lambda Protection for a standalone account - Amazon GuardDuty

A standalone account owns the decision to enable or disable a protection plan in their AWS account in a specific AWS Region.

If your account is associated with a GuardDuty administrator account through AWS Organizations, or by the method of invitation, this section doesn't apply to your account. For more information, see Enabling Lambda Protection in multiple-account environments.

After you enable Lambda Protection, GuardDuty will start monitoring Lambda Network Activity Monitoring in your account.

Choose your preferred access method to configure Lambda Protection for a standalone account.

Console

  1. Open the GuardDuty console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/.

  2. In the navigation pane, under Settings, choose Lambda Protection.

  3. The Lambda Protection page shows the current status for your account. Choose Enable to enable Lambda Protection in your account.

  4. Choose Confirm to save your selection.

API/CLI

Run the updateDetector API operation using your own regional detector ID and passing the features object name as LAMBDA_NETWORK_LOGS and status as ENABLED.

Alternatively, you can use AWS CLI to enable Lambda Protection. Run the following command, and replace 12abc34d567e8fa901bc2d34e56789f0 with your account's detector ID and us-east-1 with the Region where you want to enable Lambda Protection.

To find the detectorId for your account and current Region, see the Settings page in the https://console.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/ console, or run the ListDetectors API.

aws guardduty update-detector --detector-id 12abc34d567e8fa901bc2d34e56789f0 --region us-east-1 --features [{"Name" : "LAMBDA_NETWORK_LOGS", "Status" : "ENABLED"}]'
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  1. Open the GuardDuty console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/.

  2. In the navigation pane, under Settings, choose Lambda Protection.

  3. The Lambda Protection page shows the current status for your account. Choose Enable to enable Lambda Protection in your account.

  4. Choose Confirm to save your selection.

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