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Amazon Inspector Explained: Boosting Cloud Security for Your AWS Workloads
- Amazon Inspector is AWS's built-in security specialist that offers ways to fix issues within you cloud environment.
- Amazon Inspector scan EC2 instances, checks on EC2 instances, Lambdas and Container images to detect package vulnerabilities and network exposure.
- Amazon Inspector offers a Hybrid option to configure scan types for EC2 which includes Agent-based and Agent-less.
- Amazon Inspector detects vulnerabilities and includes exact location of code where the vulnerability is present.
- Amazon Inspector provides remediations for detected vulnerabilities such as upgrading software packages or storing secrets in AWS Secret Manager.
- EC2 instances can be excluded from Amazon Inspector scan by tagging individual instances with the key InspectorEc2Exclusion.
- Amazon Inspector also scans Lambda functions for vulnerable code.
- AWS lambda code vulnerabilities can be remedied using AWS Secret Manager and accessed using roles.
- Amazon Inspector offers robust security assessment for both EC2 Instances and Lambda functions, helping maintain a more resilient AWS environment.
- Amazon Inspector provides a 15-day trial period, and users can refer to the pricing information if they decide to continue with the service.
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