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Amazon Inspector Classic service limits - 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.

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.

Amazon Inspector Classic service limits

The following table shows the Amazon Inspector Classic limits for an AWS account.

Important

Currently, your assessment targets can consist only of EC2 instances.

The following are Amazon Inspector Classic limits per AWS account per region:

Resource Default Limit Comments
Instances in running assessments 500

The maximum number of EC2 instances that can be included across all running assessments per account per region.

Assessment runs 50000

The maximum number of assessment runs that you can create per account per region. You can have multiple assessment runs happening at the same time as long as the assessment targets used for these runs do not contain overlapping EC2 instances.

Assessment Templates 500

The maximum number of assessment templates that you can have at any given time per account per region.

Assessment Targets 50

The maximum number of assessment targets that you can have at any given time per account per region.

Unless otherwise noted, these limits can be increased upon request by contacting the AWS Support Center.

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