Installing the Amazon Inspector agent

To begin with, you will need to have an EC2 Linux instance that has access to the internet running within your AWS account. Then follow these steps:

1. Connect to your EC2 Linux instance.
2. Run either of the following commands to download the script required to install the agent:

wget https://inspector-agent.amazonaws.com/linux/latest/install

curl -O https://inspector-agent.amazonaws.com/linux/latest/install

We get the following output when we execute the wget command:

3. Once it is downloaded, you then need to run the script by entering the sudo bash install command, and you will get the following output:

Now the agent is installed, let’s now go ahead and configure Amazon Inspector to perform a vulnerability scan on the EC2 instance.