Amazon Inspector

Automated and continual vulnerability management at scale

Free 15-day trial for accounts new to Amazon Inspector

Immediately discover and scan AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure with a single click.

Consolidate your vulnerability management solutions for Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda functions, and container images in Amazon ECR into one fully managed service.

Use the highly accurate Inspector risk score to efficiently prioritize your remediation.

Reduce mean time to remediate (MTTR) vulnerabilities and streamline workflow with Amazon EventBridge and AWS Security Hub integrations.

How it works

Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.
Amazon Inspector - How it Works
What is Amazon Inspector? (1:05)
What is Amazon Inspector?

Amazon Inspector automatically discovers workloads, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and Lambda functions, and scans them for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.

Use cases

Quickly discover vulnerabilities in compute workloads

Automatically discover and quickly route vulnerability findings in near real time to the appropriate teams so they can take immediate action.

Prioritize patch remediation

Use up-to-date common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) information combined with factors such as network accessibility to create context-based risk scores that help you prioritize and address vulnerable resources.

Meet compliance requirements

Support compliance requirements and best practices for NIST CSF, PCI DSS, and other regulations with Amazon Inspector scans.

Identify zero-day vulnerabilities sooner

Accelerate MTTR by using over 50 sources for vulnerability intelligence to help identify zero-day vulnerabilities quickly.

How to

Meet Amazon Inspector


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Work with Amazon Inspector Partners

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