Reduce Amazon Detective costs with these tips

Investigate potential security issues

Amazon Detective cost saving tips

Optimize your Amazon Detective costs with these tips

Review Findings Regularly

Only pay for active Detective investigations. Close out investigations that are no longer needed to save costs.

Utilize AWS Integrations

Use Detective's integration with GuardDuty, Macie, and CloudTrail to automate data collection. This reduces manual effort and optimizes costs.

Use Built-In Analytics

Analyze trends using Detective's built-in analytics and visualizations instead of exporting large datasets. This provides insights with lower data egress costs.

Service information & pricing

About Amazon Detective

About Amazon Detective

Amazon Detective is a security service that scrutinizes and displays security data to manage potential threats. It offers a unified view of user-resource interactions, uses graph models to underscore AWS security relations, and assists in probing security issues via clear visualizations. It accelerates security investigations using AI insights, machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory for understanding threats more effectively.

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Amazon Detective pricing

Amazon Detective's costs are based on data volume ingested from sources like AWS CloudTrail logs, Amazon VPC Flow Logs, and Amazon GuardDuty findings. Charges are per gigabyte (GB) per account/region/month. There are no extra costs for enabling log sources or data storage. It offers a 30-day free trial with full feature access. Pricing details are available for varying data ingestion levels.

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