Malware Protection for S3 Expands File Size and Archive Scanning Limits

Today, AWS announces enhanced scanning capabilities for GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3. This launch increases scanning capabilities by raising the maximum file size limit from 5GB to 100 GB. Additionally, the archive processing capacity has been expanded to handle up to 10,000 files per archive, up from the previous limit of 1,000 files.

GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 is a fully managed threat detection service that automatically scans objects uploaded to S3 buckets and alerts customers of malware, viruses, and other malicious code before they can impact workloads or downstream processes. With this launch, GuardDuty S3 malware scanning now offers customers even better protection for large files and comprehensive archive collections stored in Amazon S3.

The enhanced scanning capabilities are automatically enabled in all AWS Regions where GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 is supported. To learn more about GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 and its features, please visit the AWS Documentation.