createDetector

Creates a single GuardDuty detector. A detector is a resource that represents the GuardDuty service. To start using GuardDuty, you must create a detector in each Region where you enable the service. You can have only one detector per account per Region. All data sources are enabled in a new detector by default.

• When you don't specify any features, with an exception to RUNTIME_MONITORING, all the optional features are enabled by default.

• When you specify some of the features, any feature that is not specified in the API call gets enabled by default, with an exception to RUNTIME_MONITORING.

Specifying both EKS Runtime Monitoring (EKS_RUNTIME_MONITORING) and Runtime Monitoring (RUNTIME_MONITORING) will cause an error. You can add only one of these two features because Runtime Monitoring already includes the threat detection for Amazon EKS resources. For more information, see Runtime Monitoring.

There might be regional differences because some data sources might not be available in all the Amazon Web Services Regions where GuardDuty is presently supported. For more information, see Regions and endpoints.