Tenable Nessus vs. Amazon Inspector

Built for security practitioners, by security professionals, Nessus products by Tenable are the de-facto industry standard for vulnerability assessment. Nessus performs point-in-time assessments to help security professionals quickly and easily identify and fix vulnerabilities, including software flaws, missing patches, malware, and misconfigurations - across a variety of operating systems, devices, and applications.

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.