Prerequisites to enabling Runtime Monitoring

To enable Runtime Monitoring and manage the GuardDuty security agent, you must meet the prerequisites for each resource type that you want to monitor for threat detection. Each resource type has different prerequisites. For example, GuardDuty supports different OS distributions based on the resource type.

When you want to monitor only Amazon EC2 resources, you will follow the prerequisites for Amazon EC2 instances. If at a later time, you choose to monitor Amazon EKS resources, you must follow the prerequisites specific to Amazon EKS clusters.

The following sections include prerequisites based on the resource type.