Creating a custom Inspector template

In this recipe, we will learn how to create a new assessment template with a custom assessment target for EC2 instances that have a particular tag. In the previous recipe, we created an assessment template with an assessment target for all EC2 instances in our AWS account.

Getting ready

Create an EC2 instance in the default VPC within a public subnet within the VPC using the default VPC security group. You can follow the Launching an EC2 instance into VPC recipe in Chapter 6, Working with EC2 Instances.

Add a tag with the Key as Environment and Value as Prod for the EC2 instances we need to assess:

You may use any Key and Value for the tag and use it accordingly within the following...