Understanding Amazon Inspector
Amazon Inspector enables you to analyze the behavior of your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and helps you identify potential security issues. With Amazon Inspector, you can run automated assessments over any or all applications you are hosting in the AWS cloud, based on hundreds of rules created by AWS security experts. These rules look for vulnerabilities as well as deviations from the best practices. After performing an assessment, Amazon Inspector delivers a detailed list of findings, which are categorized by their level of severity. The process is illustrated in the following diagram:
At the time of writing this, the assessments that Amazon Inspector can perform are contained to only those on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances.
Since we have just had an overview of Amazon Inspector, let's look at how we can get started with the Amazon Inspector service...