Amazon Inspector 2 - What's new?

2022-01-03 6 min read AWS

Six years after the initial launch AWS announced the new Amazon Inspector. The launch took place during re:Invent 2021. With this launch the previous version has been renamed to Amazon Inspector Classic. The new Amazon Inspector is rearchitected to support a wider range of workloads and simplified workflow management.

Scale with simplified management

The management of Inspector 2 has been simplified. Enabling and configuring the service can be done with a few API calls or, if you persist on manual labor, a few clicks in ClickOps. To give an idea of the steps needed to enable Inspector for both existing and new member accounts, the steps are listed below.