intermediate~1.5h
Amazon Inspector & AWS Trusted Advisor
Two complementary automated-checking services: Inspector continuously scans workloads for software vulnerabilities and network exposure, while Trusted Advisor checks account configuration against cost, security, performance, and fault-tolerance best practices.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain what Amazon Inspector scans and how it differs from a manual security audit
- •Explain what AWS Trusted Advisor checks and how check availability differs by support plan
- •Distinguish Inspector's vulnerability-focused scope from Trusted Advisor's broader best-practices scope
- •Identify which service would surface a specific finding — an outdated package with a known CVE versus an underutilized EC2 instance
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