Amazon Inspector vs Anchore Enterprise
Amazon Inspector
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Anchore Enterprise
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| Figure | Amazon Inspector | Anchore Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 4 |
| Spec score · Container Image Scanning Tools | 7.7 (#9) | 8.2 (#4) |
| Spec score · Cloud Vulnerability Scanners | 7.7 (#14) | 8.2 (#8) |
| Integrations | Findings are aggregated in the Inspector console, routed to AWS Security Hub, and pushed through Amazon EventBridge; container findings are also sent to Amazon ECR. | The maker lists integrations including Atlassian Bitbucket Pipes and Bamboo, Amazon ECR and EKS, Azure DevOps and ACR, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Docker Hub, and Harbor. |
| Purpose | Amazon Inspector automatically discovers workloads and code repositories and scans them for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. | Anchore Enterprise is an SBOM-powered platform for continuous software supply chain security and compliance. |
Plans
Amazon Inspector
- 15-day free trialFree
- Azure scanning free trialFree
- Amazon Inspector pay-as-you-goPrice not published
Anchore Enterprise
- Commercial Cloud ImagePriced on request
- Commercial Container ImagePriced on request
- Government Cloud ImagePriced on request
- Government Container ImagePriced on request
In their own words
Amazon Inspector
Amazon Inspector has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Anchore Enterprise
Anchore Enterprise is an SBOM-powered platform for continuous software supply-chain security and compliance. It generates software bills of materials for containers, source code, and filesystems in Syft, CycloneDX, and SPDX formats, then continuously scans those SBOMs for vulnerabilities, secrets, and malware. Policy packs cover NIST, FedRAMP, and DISA, while policy-as-code rules use JSON instructions that can be version controlled in Git. Runtime inventory can cover images running across EKS, ECS, AKE, GKE, and OpenShift clusters. Deployment options include an AWS machine image or container images installed with Helm on Kubernetes-compatible platforms, including air-gapped environments. Every feature and operation can be instrumented through an API. Integrations include major CI, registry, and cloud services such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Amazon ECR, Azure DevOps, Docker Hub, and Harbor. It supports API, Linux, self-hosted, and web environments. Pricing is on request; there is no free plan, but a free trial is available.