# Amazon Inspector Documentation

Amazon Inspector is a security vulnerability assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of your AWS resources. Amazon Inspector automatically assesses resources for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices, and then produces a detailed list of security findings prioritized by level of severity. Amazon Inspector includes a knowledge base of hundreds of rules mapped to common security standards and vulnerability definitions that are regularly updated by AWS security researchers.

## Amazon Inspector

- [User Guide](/inspector/latest/user/): Walks through how to set up Amazon Inspector and evaluate your security configuration.
- [API Reference](/inspector/v2/APIReference/): Describes all the API operations for Amazon Inspector in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
- [Amazon Inspector section of the AWS CLI Reference](https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/inspector2/index.html): Describes the AWS CLI commands that you can use to administer Amazon Inspector. Provides syntax, options, and usage examples for each command.

## Amazon Inspector Classic

- [User Guide](/inspector/v1/userguide/): Walks through how to set up Amazon Inspector Classic and evaluate your security configuration.
- [API Reference](/inspector/v1/APIReference/): Describes all the API operations for Amazon Inspector Classic in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
- [Amazon Inspector Classic section of the AWS CLI Reference](/cli/latest/reference/inspector/index.html): Describes the AWS CLI commands that you can use to administer Amazon Inspector Classic. Provides syntax, options, and usage examples for each command.

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