- Amazon.com Inc’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services, or AWS, launched three new capabilities for Amazon GuardDuty to strengthen customer security.
- Amazon GuardDuty is AWS’s threat detection service. The new capabilities help customers protect containers, databases, and serverless workloads.
- These capabilities include – new container runtime protection for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, extended coverage for data stored in Amazon Aurora, and support for serverless applications in AWS Lambda.
- The capabilities strengthen customer security through expanded coverage and continuous enhancements in machine learning, anomaly detection, and integrated threat intelligence.
- “Tens of thousands of organizations across virtually every industry and geography use Amazon GuardDuty, including more than 90% of our 2,000 largest customers, helping to protect more than half a billion EC2 instances and millions of S3 buckets,” said Jon Ramsey, vice president for Security Services at AWS.
- Amazon will report its first-quarter results on April 27 after the market close.
- Price Action: AMZN shares traded lower by 0.83% at $106.07 on the last check Monday.
Nasdaq Jumps 250 Points; Trade Desk Issues Weak Revenue Forecast
U.S. stocks traded higher toward the end of trading, with the Nasdaq Composite gaining around 250 points on Friday.
The Dow traded up 0.94% to 34,211.92 while the NASDAQ rose 1.86% to 13,773.36. The S&P 500 also rose, gaining, 1.35% to 4,406.16.
