AWS Security Cookbook

How to do it...

We can create an assessment target as follows:

1. Go to the Inspector service in the console.

If you are logging in for the first time and see a Get started page, refer to the Setting up and using Amazon Inspector recipe.

2. Click Assessment targets from the left sidebar.
3. In the Amazon Inspector - Assessment Targets page, click Create.
4. For All Instances, uncheck Include all EC2 instances in this AWS account and region.

5. For Use Tags, click on Add a new key and select the Key and Value we created for our EC2 instance in the Getting ready section. Our assessment target creation screen should look like the following screenshot:

6. Click on Preview.
7. In the Resources for assessment target screen, verify the instances and click ...