A company built its serverless infrastructure on AWS.

The question focuses on detecting supply chain attacks that bypass CI/CD controls and result in malicious runtime behavior in the deployed serverless application. This requires runtime threat detection, not just static scanning or infrastructure validation.

Amazon GuardDuty is AWS’s managed threat detection service. GuardDuty now includes Lambda Protection, which analyzes Lambda function behavior, including network calls, IAM API usage, and other signals to detect compromised functions, crypto-mining, data exfiltration, and other malicious activity. GuardDuty automatically ingests CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs (if enabled), and other telemetry without requiring code changes or agents. Findings are published and can be routed to Amazon EventBridge for near real-time notifications or automated remediation.

Option A (AWS WAF) only inspects HTTP requests to API Gateway and is focused on known bad patterns, not deeper behavioral anomalies. Option C (CloudFormation Guard) is focused on infrastructure-as-code validation in the pipeline, which explicitly does not help once malicious code is deployed. Option D (Network Firewall with Emerging Threats rules) protects VPC traffic, but serverless components like Lambda and API Gateway may not all traverse that firewall, and it is not targeted at function-level behavior.

Hence, enabling GuardDuty with Lambda Protection and using EventBridge notifications is the correct solution.