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Monday, November 2, 2026

Amazon Inspector Now Scans EC2 AMIs for Vulnerabilities

Amazon Inspector just leveled up by adding vulnerability scanning directly to EC2 Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) without needing to launch instances. You can now catch security issues early in your deployment pipeline, run continuous monitoring across your AMI catalog, and enforce security standards organization-wide using Declarative Policies.

source: [aws/whats-new]