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Using AWS inspector to monitor AWS EC2 instance for common vulnerabilities.

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AWS Inspector. This is an automated security assessment service on the AWS console which scans through your environment and provides you with a report of vulnerabilities in it. this service is useful in that It helps to improve the security and complains of applications deployed in the AWS environment It assesses the application for exposure (vulnerabilities and deviation from best security practices) Shows your changes which took place that exposes your infrastructure. It recommends possible ways of fixing the vulnerabilities. How to set up the inspector. To set up and AWS inspector, you need to make sure the service you want to monitor or access is running, in this case, the ec2 has to be running. So with the instance, you want to access running, on the AWS console search for the inspector service. With the inspector service on focus, click on get started. Next, you are presented with the page for configuring or choosing the type of assessment of which a