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Security & identity

Amazon Inspector

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesnot billed
  • Callsbilled

In one line

EC2 and Lambda meter by the hour of coverage. Container images and code repos meter per scan.

What gets missed

ECR bills per assessment, so a CI pipeline pushing all day pays for every initial scan and every rescan of every image. EC2 and Lambda coverage prorates by instance-hour, so short-lived hosts cost little.

Find it on your bill

Filter Cost Explorer or your Cost and Usage Report by these usage types. A usage type with no region prefix means us-east-1.

  • EC2-Scanning
  • Lambda-Standard-Scanning
  • container-image-initial-scan
  • container-image-re-scan

Bills the same way

These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.