AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 144

What is the primary use case for Amazon GuardDuty?

Answer options

• A. Prevention of DDoS attacks
• B. Protection against SQL injection attacks
• C. Automatic monitoring for threats to AWS workloads
• D. Automatic provisioning of AWS resources

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because Amazon GuardDuty is specifically designed to automatically monitor and detect potential threats to AWS workloads. Options A and B pertain to specific types of attacks that GuardDuty does not directly prevent, while option D relates to resource management rather than threat monitoring.