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Amazon Inspector

Amazon Inspector - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Amazon Inspector

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Your application is running smoothly in the cloud, but lurking inside your container images, EC2 instances and Lambda functions are vulnerabilities you don't even know about. Security gaps that attackers are actively looking for. What if AWS could automatically find these vulnerabilities and tell you exactly how to fix them? That's Amazon Inspector. Let's break it down. So, what exactly is Amazon Inspector? It's a vulnerability management service that continuously scans your AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. Inspector supports three types of resources. First, it scans Amazon EC2 instances for operating system and software vulnerabilities. Second, it scans continuous images stored in Amazon ECR. And third, it scans AWS Lambda functions for vulnerabilities in application code and dependencies. Let's look at what Amazon Inspector is powerful. Unlike traditional vulnerability scanners…

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