GuardDuty Malware Protection now scans S3 continuous backups
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Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup now supports S3 continuous backups, allowing users to scan backups for malware and identify clean recovery points. This feature enables full or incremental scans within backup plans and on-demand scans, with a new API to query scan status at any point in time, providing enhanced safety for S3 data restoration.
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https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/05/amazon-guardduty-aws-backup-s3-continuous/
