Amazon Inspector is an offering from AWS that continuously scans your applications and infrastructure for common exploits and vulnerabilities. It supports multiple AWS accounts, allowing you to centralize your vulnerability management for AWS workloads.
Learning to use Amazon Inspector will help anybody looking to improve the security of workloads running in AWS.
In this hands-on lab, you will activate Amazon Inspector, tour its features, and observe some of its findings.
Learning objectives
Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:
- Activate Amazon Inspector
- Review a finding
- Remediate a finding
Intended audience
- Candidates for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Specialty certification
- Cloud Architects
- DevOps Engineers
- Software Engineers
Prerequisites
Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:
- Amazon Inspector
- AWS Lambda
The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:
Andrew is a Labs Developer with previous experience in the Internet Service Provider, Audio Streaming, and CryptoCurrency industries. He has also been a DevOps Engineer and enjoys working with CI/CD and Kubernetes.
He holds multiple AWS certifications including Solutions Architect Associate and Professional.