Amazon EC2 is a widely utilized AWS service essential for deploying applications, while Amazon Inspector provides critical security assessments to help enhance the security posture of applications hosted on EC2. Together, they form a powerful combination for developers to deploy secure applications in the cloud, safeguarding them against potential vulnerabilities to ensure best security practices.
In this lab, you will start by setting up an EC2 instance, attaching a predefined role to a security group, and installing an outdated Node.js version. Once your EC2 instance is running, you will enable Amazon Inspector to assess the instance for vulnerabilities. Amazon Inspector is expected to identify an open port in the security group and an outdated version of the Node.js through this process. Once identified, you will take corrective actions by deleting this vulnerable port from the security group, installing a new version of Node.js, and validating the remediation by rerunning Amazon Inspector.
Upon completing this lab, you will have firsthand experience detecting and mitigating potential security vulnerabilities using Amazon Inspector in EC2 instances. This will help you to deploy more secure applications on AWS, strengthening your credentials as a cloud specialist and advancing your career.
The following is the high-level architecture diagram of the infrastructure that we will create in this lab:
