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Inspector to monitor EC2 configurations

Inspector to monitor EC2 configurations - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Inspector to monitor EC2 configurations

- Next up, we're gonna look at Amazon Inspector. So, Inspector as it says here, it enables you to analyze the behavior of AWS resources and helps to identify potential security issues. Now in the interest of time, I've actually set up some Inspector settings. So let's take a look at them. So the first section here is the dashboard and it shows you a summary of results. I haven't run the assessment yet, so you can see that it would show you important findings, recent findings, assessment status, and subsequent assessment information on the dashboard. The first section here is the assessment target. So inside of here, I've created a target and it's a collection of AWS resources that help you accomplish business goals. Oftentimes, it will be a collection of EC2 instances and you can see what I've done here is I've defined this target as instances that have a key and a value of purpose and demo. And here you can see how tagging is such an important aspect of proper security that you have…

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