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Wednesday, August 19, 2026

AWS Security Agent Gets Budget Controls and Smart Revalidation

AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) just dropped two handy features for your penetration testing workflow: you can now cap test costs by setting maximum task-hour limits, and revalidate individual findings without running full tests again. This means you'll finally have control over your security testing bills and can quickly confirm whether your fixes actually worked.

source: [aws/whats-new]