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Which AWS service continuously scans EC2 instances and container images for software vulnerabilities (CVE) and network reachability misconfig — feeding findings into Security Hub?
AAmazon Route 53
BAWS Shield
CAmazon Macie
DAmazon Inspector
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Amazon Inspector
Inspector is AWS's vuln + network-reachability scanner (per SCS-C02 §1.1, §3.3). Macie is data classification; Shield is DDoS; Route 53 is DNS.
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