Have the big cloud providers won the machine learning advantage?

At ReInvent last week, Amazon announced GuardDuty, which provides “intelligent threat detection and continuous monitoring” for your AWS workloads. With one click, you can enable real time analysis of events, network activity and DNS logs and begin to benefit from early detection of threats. It even has the capability to automate responses with Lambda triggers.

The product idea itself isn’t particularly new — indeed, it actually integrates into third party services to incorporate their own threat intelligence rulesets…