Amazon Inspector Reviews & Product Details

Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continuously scans AWS workloads—including Amazon EC2 instances, container images in Amazon ECR, AWS Lambda functions, and code repositories—for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. By integrating seamlessly with AWS environments, it provides real-time detection and prioritization of security issues, enabling organizations to enhance their security posture efficiently. Key Features and Functionality: - Automated Discovery and Continuous Scanning: Automatically identifies and assesses AWS resources for vulnerabilities and network exposures, ensuring comprehensive coverage without manual intervention. - Contextualized Risk Scoring: Generates risk scores by correlating vulnerability data with environmental factors such as network accessibility and exploitability, aiding in the prioritization of remediation efforts. - Integration with AWS Services: Seamlessly integrates with AWS Security Hub and Amazon EventBridge, facilitating automated workflows and centralized management of security findings. - Support for Multiple Resource Types: Extends vulnerability management to various AWS services, including EC2 instances, container images, Lambda functions, and code repositories, providing a unified security assessment across the cloud environment. - Agentless Scanning for EC2 Instances: Offers continuous monitoring of EC2 instances for software vulnerabilities without the need for installing additional agents, simplifying deployment and maintenance. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Amazon Inspector addresses the critical need for continuous and automated vulnerability management within AWS environments. By providing real-time detection and prioritization of security issues, it enables organizations to proactively identify and remediate vulnerabilities, reducing the risk of security breaches and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Its integration with existing AWS services and support for various resource types streamline security operations, allowing teams to focus on strategic initiatives while maintaining a robust security posture.

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What is Amazon Inspector, and what problem is it built to solve?

Amazon Inspector is used to assess AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. It helps teams identify security issues so they can investigate and address them.

What company sizes and industries is Amazon Inspector the best fit for?

Amazon Inspector’s positive experiences span small-business, mid-market, and enterprise teams, with software and technology-focused industries especially visible. The strongest firmographic clusters include:

Small business: Teams with 50 or fewer employees.
Mid-market: Organizations with 51–1,000 employees.
Enterprise: Organizations with more than 1,000 employees.
Software and IT: Computer Software and Information Technology and Services.
Security and telecommunications: Computer & Network Security and Telecommunications.

What customer support options does Amazon Inspector provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

The support experience is described as helpful, particularly when teams need customer handholding. Documentation is also used as a practical source of guidance for getting oriented.

Is Amazon Inspector considered safe and secure for handling data?

Amazon Inspector helps teams identify vulnerabilities and security issues across AWS resources, and its automated assessments can make it easier to keep those issues visible. Teams still need clear remediation workflows: findings can accumulate, prioritization and filtering may need improvement, and some guidance requires further investigation outside the service. Proper configuration also matters when using the broader AWS security environment.

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Timothy G.

Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"Inspector is as good start for vulnerability scanning, butr far from perfect"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon Inspector?

pretty hands off approach to vulnerability scanning. Get industry standard scans out of the box Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Inspector?

inability to aggregate findings across accounts

CIS-SCAN does not allow you to choose the CIS CAT level to run. The scanner is unuseable to us, as our compliance only requires level 1, not level 2, so we end up with a ton of spurrious findings we dont care about

Would be nice to have additional filters, like"only scan instances which have been up more than n minutes" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jacki S.

Navy Seal

Military

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/31/2018

"AWS STORAGE"

3/5

What do you like best about Amazon Inspector?

My coworker loves that we are to use people to "pretend" to develop co. website and store doc., but honestly was extra costly that way, so showing that we had I had resources that was done coworkers, no two ways around it. The world watched uncover extreme determination of economic dollars hopefully change security laws. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Inspector?

I don't like anything about having to install exe. to my desktop because of "breaching" as I install and reinstall just to get it right - my excuse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Relations

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/7/2019

"Inspector"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Inspector?

Specific functionality for the AWS environment. Compared to other scanners, it targets the environment and is FedRAMP compliant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Inspector?

I have not used the tool, only worked to ensure it's compliant with FedRAMP requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/7/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"useful, but not very accurate"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon Inspector?

easy use and good interface, i can use this to simplify my busniess Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Inspector?

sometime, it is not accurate, so i often recevice worry warning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sakshi J.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/27/2018

"Amazon inspector is security service"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Inspector?

Amazon inspector is very good managed and auto service provided by amazon to check security system of all amazon services like security gp. instances and other services as well. Amazon inspector is automatically checked all the things in rules and provides the report to administrator. It automatically have security checks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Inspector?

main dislike i can say is cost and time it takes otherwise its a very good and managed service by amazon Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Inspector:

One can use amazon inspector to manage their security systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Inspector solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solving our security issues as it automatically checks all the services and security gp and fix them and provide report as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mackenzie A.

Software Developer

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/19/2018

"AI does the job"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Inspector?

AI simply does its task the method it is expected to. Extremely beneficial service as the majority of individuals deal with security problem so can be repaired by utilizing this service without utilizing personnels. One can utilize AI to handle their security systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Inspector?

The absence of a few of the custom-made defense and that is a bit difficult when you set it approximately deal with other services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Titouan G.

Entrepreneur

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Originally submitted 4/25/2018

"A very useful product."

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Inspector?

This software helps users to check the level of safety of the product that we develop. The power of the product. It's easy to know what's wrong. I will use it for my personal use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Inspector?

Nothing wrong with it. Everything is easy to do. The main bad aspect of this product is the interface which doesn't change while I used it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Inspector:

The service of this software does not have to change. Another interface may probably improve sending or renewing the subscription. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Inspector solving and how is that benefiting you?

A simple way to check the safety of the product. Our databases for our websites are now safer. We are sure that our services will not be hacked or bypass our system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/24/2018

"amazon inspector - security service of aws"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Inspector?

Amazon Inspector is widely used by big clients and it helps to make secure our system services and AWS services or deployed applications on AWS. It is an automated service which is provided by AWS and very useful service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Inspector?

It is not available in all regions and its cost are its dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Inspector:

Very useful service for security purposes and very flexible and reliable to use to check servers and services security. I would like to recommend all AWS users to use this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Inspector solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is very beneficial for security and checks the vulnerability issues and provides the list of issues to fix them. Also very useful for web providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/31/2018

"Use it for security and company compliance"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Inspector?

For me was a way different approach and all new concept on security and company compliance. Using new tools and choices are on how to better stay sound compliance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Inspector?

It’s all new way of thinking and that takes time to change in your mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.