Amazon Inspector vs. Intruder

Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continuously scans AWS workloads—including Amazon EC2 instances, container images in Amazon ECR, AWS Lambda functions, and code repositories—for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. By integrating seamlessly with AWS environments, it provides real-time detection and prioritization of security issues, enabling organizations to enhance their security posture efficiently.

Intruder's continuous exposure management platform helps security, IT, and engineering teams stop breaches before they start. By unifying AI penetration testing, attack surface monitoring, cloud security, and vulnerability management in one intuitive platform, Intruder gives stretched teams an always-on security source of truth. Our approach focuses on continuous automated scanning using expertise and agentic solutions to ensure that the findings we deliver are accurate, prioritized by real-world risk, and ready to act on.