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Amazon Inspector vs Trivy

Amazon Inspector

aws.amazon.com

Trivy

trivy.dev

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FigureAmazon InspectorTrivy
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trialYes—
Open source——
WebYes—
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
APIYes—
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published31
Spec score · Container Image Scanning Tools7.7 (#9)8.2 (#6)
Spec score · Cloud Vulnerability Scanners7.7 (#14)8.1 (#12)
PurposeAmazon Inspector automatically discovers workloads and code repositories and scans them for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.Trivy scans code repositories, binary artifacts, container images, and Kubernetes clusters for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

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Amazon Inspector

  • 15-day free trialFree
  • Azure scanning free trialFree
  • Amazon Inspector pay-as-you-goPrice not published

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Trivy

  • TrivyFree

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Amazon Inspector

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Trivy

Trivy is a free, Apache-2.0-licensed scanner for code repositories, binary artifacts, container images, and Kubernetes clusters. Its scanners cover vulnerabilities, infrastructure-as-code misconfigurations, secrets, and licenses, and it can generate software bills of materials. Vulnerability checks include operating-system and language-specific packages, some non-packaged software, and Kubernetes components. Configuration checks cover Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CloudFormation files, and users can write custom checks. Trivy supports ecosystems including Ruby, Python, PHP, Node.js, .NET, Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, Elixir, Dart, Swift, Julia, and operating-system packages. It can run as a CI/CD binary without middleware or database dependencies and can be used in air-gapped environments. Installation options include container images, release binaries, package repositories, Homebrew, and Windows downloads; official integrations include Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. Results can be exported as JUnit XML, SARIF, and ASFF. The vulnerability scanner documentation says third-party or self-compiled packages and binaries are unsupported, and the scanner may skip third-party packages. Trivy automatically fetches and maintains the security databases it needs for scans. The project is identified as Go software under the Apache-2.0 License; Aqua Security is listed as founded in 2015 with headquarters in Boston and Ramat Gan.

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