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title: AWS Inspector
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***Version: 1.3  
Updated: July 29, 2025***

Amazon Inspector enables you to analyze the behavior of your AWS resources and to identify potential security issues.

## Actions

* **List Assessment Target** *(Enrichment)* - Lists the ARNs of the assessment targets within this AWS account.
* **List Assessment Template** *(Enrichment)* - Lists the assessment templates that correspond to the assessment targets that are specified by the ARNs of the assessment targets.
* **List Rules Package** *(Enrichment)* - Lists all available Amazon Inspector rules packages.
* **Create Assessment Target** *(Containment)* - Creates a new assessment target using the ARN of the resource group that is generated by CreateResourceGroup.
* **Create Assessment Template** *(Containment)* - Creates an assessment template for the assessment target that is specified by the ARN of the assessment target.
* **Delete Assessment Target** *(Containment)* - Deletes the assessment target that is specified by the ARN of the assessment target.

## Configure AWS Inspector in Automation Service and Cloud SOAR

import IntegrationsAuth from '../../../../reuse/integrations-authentication.md';
import IntegrationsAuthAWS from '../../../../reuse/integrations-authentication-aws.md';
import IAMConfiguration from '../../../../reuse/automation-service/aws/iam-configuration.md';
import AWSRegions from '../../../../reuse/automation-service/aws/region.md';
import AWSAccesskey from '../../../../reuse/automation-service/aws/access-key.md';
import AWSSecret from '../../../../reuse/automation-service/aws/secret.md';
import AWSIAMRole from '../../../../reuse/automation-service/aws/iam-role.md';
import IntegrationCertificate from '../../../../reuse/automation-service/integration-certificate.md';
import IntegrationEngine from '../../../../reuse/automation-service/integration-engine.md';
import IntegrationLabel from '../../../../reuse/automation-service/integration-label.md';
import IntegrationProxy from '../../../../reuse/automation-service/integration-proxy.md';
import IntegrationTimeout from '../../../../reuse/automation-service/integration-timeout.md';

<IntegrationsAuth/>

* <IntegrationLabel/>
* <AWSAccesskey/>
* <AWSSecret/>
* <AWSIAMRole/>
* <AWSRegions/>
* <IntegrationEngine/>
* <IntegrationProxy/>
   
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For information about AWS Inspector, see [Inspector documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/inspector/).

<IntegrationsAuthAWS/>

### AWS IAM role-based access

<IAMConfiguration/>

## Limitations

Local [Automation Bridge](/docs/platform-services/automation-service/automation-service-bridge/) is not supported in this version.

## Change Log

* March 2, 2022 - First upload
* March 10, 2022 - Logo
* June 15, 2023 (v1.2) - Updated the integration with Environmental Variables
* July 29, 2025 (v1.3) - Added support for IAM role authentication - Users can now authenticate using an AWS IAM Role in addition to access key–based authentication.