Getting started with Amazon Inspector

Why Amazon Inspector Service?

Amazon Inspector is a vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. With a few steps in the AWS Management Console, you can use Amazon Inspector across all accounts in your organization. Once started, it automatically discovers Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, container images residing in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and within CI/CD tools, and AWS Lambda functions, at scale, and immediately starts assessing them for known vulnerabilities.

Getting started

1

Set up and sign in to your AWS account

Visit the AWS Management Console and sign in or create a new AWS account.

2

Enable Amazon Inspector

Open the Amazon Inspector console and choose Get Started and Enable Amazon Inspector to begin your 15-day free trial.

3

Quickly discover vulnerabilities in compute workloads

Amazon Inspector continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.  

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