Document history - Amazon Inspector Classic

This is the user guide for Amazon Inspector Classic. For information about the new Amazon Inspector, see the Amazon Inspector User Guide. To access the Amazon Inspector Classic console, open the Amazon Inspector console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/inspector/, and then choose Amazon Inspector Classic in the navigation pane.

Document history

The following table describes the documentation release history of Amazon Inspector Classic after May 2018.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Updated security best practices for passwords

The Amazon Inspector Classic security best practice requirements for EC2 instance password length and password complexity have been updated. See Configure password minimum length and Configure password complexity

March 8, 2021

Added support for newer operating system versions

Amazon Inspector Classic now supports the following operating system versions: Ubunti 20.4 LTS, Debian 10.x, RHEL 8.x, and Windows Server 2019 Base.

October 15, 2020

Security information consolidated into a new security chapter

Security information for Amazon Inspector Classic, including information on managing identity and access management, is consolidated into a security chapter. See Security in Amazon Inspector Classic.

April 7, 2020

Updated documentation to remove support for the Runtime Behavior Analysis rules package.

Multiple topics were updated to remove information about the Runtime Behavior Analysis rules package, which is no longer supported.

September 5, 2019

Added OS Support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic support for CentOS 7.6. For more information, see Amazon Inspector Classic Supported Operating Systems and Regions and Rules Packages Availability Across Supported Operating Systems.

December 3, 2018

New content

Added the Amazon Inspector Classic Network Reachability rules package, which allows users to run agentless assessments that analyze network configuration for security vulnerabilities. For more information, see Network Reachability.

November 9, 2018

Added OS Support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic support for RHEL 7.6. For more information, see Amazon Inspector Classic Supported Operating Systems and Regions and Rules Packages Availability Across Supported Operating Systems.

October 30, 2018

Added OS support

Added support for various operating systems to the CIS Benchmark rules package. For more information, see Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks and Rules Packages Availability Across Supported Operating Systems.

August 13, 2018

Added Region support

Added Region support for AWS GovCloud (US).

June 13, 2018

The following table describes the documentation release history of Amazon Inspector Classic before June 2018.

Change Description Date
New content

Added the ability to target all Amazon EC2 instances in an account. For more information, see Amazon Inspector Classic assessment targets.

May 24, 2018
Added OS support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic support for Amazon Linux 2018.03 and Ubuntu 18.04.

May 15, 2018
New content

Added ability to set up recurring Amazon Inspector Classic assessments.

April 30, 2018
New content

Added ability to install an Amazon Inspector Classic agent through the console.

April 30, 2018
Added OS support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic support for Amazon Linux 2.

March 13, 2018
Added OS support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic assessment support for Windows Server 2016 Base.

February 20, 2018
Added Region support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic support for the US East (Ohio) Region.

February 7, 2018
New content

Amazon Inspector Classic assessments can now run when the kernel module is unavailable.

January 11, 2018
Added Region support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic support for the EU (Frankfurt) Region.

December 19, 2017
New content

Added ability to check Amazon Inspector Classic agent health with the Amazon Inspector Classic API and console.

December 15, 2017
New content

Added the following features:

  • Service-linked role usage

  • Amazon Inspector Classic agent AMI available in the AWS Marketplace

  • Amazon Inspector Classic AWS CloudFormation templates

December 5, 2017
Added OS support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic assessment support for CentOS 7.4.

November 9, 2017
Added OS support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic assessment support for Amazon Linux 2017.09.

October 11, 2017
Added OS support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic assessment support for RHEL 7.4.

February 20, 2018
Added HIPAA eligibility

Amazon Inspector Classic is now HIPAA eligible.

July 31, 2017
New content

Added ability to automatically trigger Amazon Inspector Classic security assessment with Amazon CloudWatch Events.

July 27, 2017
Added Region support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic support for the US West (N. California) Region.

June 6, 2018
Added OS support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic assessment support for RHEL 6.2-6.9, RHEL 7.2-7.3, CentOS 6.9, and CentOS 7.2-7.3.

May 23, 2017
Added OS support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic assessment support for Amazon Linux 2017.03.

April 25, 2017
New content and added OS support

Added:

  • Amazon Inspector Classic support for Ubuntu 16.04.

  • Availability of Lambda blueprint for automating Amazon Inspector Classic operations.

January 5, 2017
New OS support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic support for Microsoft Windows.

August 26, 2016
Added Region support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic support for the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region.

August 26, 2016
Added Region support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic support for the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region.

April 25, 2016
Added Region support

Added Amazon Inspector Classic support for the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

April 25, 2016
Service launch

Amazon Inspector Classic serviced launched.

Oct 7, 2015