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Amazon Inspector Lambda standard scanning should be enabled

Confirms that Amazon Inspector Lambda standard scanning is enabled in each Region where the account has Lambda functions, so the packages in each function and its layers are checked for known vulnerabilities. Inspector scans only functions invoked or updated in the last 90 days.

service
Inspector
severity
High
scope
evaluated in every region

How to fix it

In the console

Amazon Inspector → Account management → Activate

With the AWS CLI

aws inspector2 enable --resource-types LAMBDA --region <region>

With Terraform

resource "aws_inspector2_enabler" "this" {
  account_ids    = [data.aws_caller_identity.current.account_id]
  resource_types = ["LAMBDA"]
}

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