Supported operating systems and programming languages by Amazon Inspector
Supported operating systems
Amazon Inspector sources over 50 data-feeds to generate findings for CVEs including vendor security advisories, NVD, MITRE, other open-source feeds, internal research, and licensed data feeds.
The operating systems supported by Amazon Inspector, along with the vendor security advisories supported for that system, are listed below:
Amazon EC2 scanning
| Operating system | Major version | Minor version | Vendor Advisories |
| Amazon Linux AMI (AL1) | N/A | N/A | ALAS |
| Amazon Linux (AL2) | 2 | N/A | ALAS |
| CentOS Linux (CentOS) | 7 | X | CESA |
| CentOS Linux (CentOS) | 8 | X | RHSA |
| Debian Server (Stretch) | 9 | x | DSA |
| Debian Server (Buster) | 10 | X | DSA |
| Debian Server (Bullseye) | 11 | X | DSA |
| Oracle Linux (Oracle) | 6 | X | ELSA |
| Oracle Linux (Oracle) | 7 | X | ELSA |
| Oracle Linux (Oracle) | 8 | X | ELSA |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | 7 | X | RHSA |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | 8 | X | RHSA |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) | 12 | X | SUSE CVE |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) | 15 | X | SUSE CVE |
| Ubuntu (Trusty) | 14 | 04 (ESM) | USN |
| Ubuntu (Xenial) | 16 | 04 (ESM) | USN |
| Ubuntu (Bionic) | 18 | 04 (LTS) | USN |
| Ubuntu (Focal) | 20 | 04 (LTS) | USN |
| Ubuntu (Groovy) | 20 | 10 | USN |
| Ubuntu (Hirsute) | 21 | 04 | USN |
| Ubuntu (Impish) | 21 | 10 | USN |
| Ubuntu (Jammy) | 22 | 04 (LTS) | USN |
Amazon ECR scanning
| Operating system | Major version | Minor version | Vendor Advisories |
| Alpine Linux (Alpine) | 3 | 12 | Alpine Secdb |
| Alpine Linux (Alpine) | 3 | 13 | Alpine Secdb |
| Alpine Linux (Alpine) | 3 | 14 | Alpine Secdb |
| Alpine Linux (Alpine) | 3 | 15 | Alpine Secdb |
| Alpine Linux (Alpine) | 3 | 16 | Alpine Secdb |
| Amazon Linux (AL1) | 2018.03 | N/A | ALAS |
| Amazon Linux (AL2) | 2 | N/A | ALAS |
| CentOS Linux (CentOS) | 7 | X | CESA |
| CentOS Linux (CentOS) | 8 | X | RHSA |
| Debian Server (Stretch) | 9 | x | DSA |
| Debian Server (Buster) | 10 | X | DSA |
| Debian Server (Bullseye) | 11 | X | DSA |
| Oracle Linux (Oracle) | 6 | X | ELSA |
| Oracle Linux (Oracle) | 7 | X | ELSA |
| Oracle Linux (Oracle) | 8 | X | ELSA |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | 7 | X | RHSA |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | 8 | X | RHSA |
| OpenSUSE Leap (SUSE Leap) | 15 | 2 | SUSE CVE |
| OpenSUSE Leap (SUSE Leap) | 15 | 3 | SUSE CVE |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) | 12 | X | SUSE CVE |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) | 15 | X | SUSE CVE |
| Ubuntu (Trusty) | 14 | 04 (ESM) | USN |
| Ubuntu (Xenial) | 16 | 04 (ESM) | USN |
| Ubuntu (Bionic) | 18 | 04 (LTS) | USN |
| Ubuntu (Focal) | 20 | 04 (LTS) | USN |
| Ubuntu (Groovy) | 20 | 10 | USN |
| Ubuntu (Hirsute) | 21 | 04 | USN |
| Ubuntu (Impish) | 21 | 10 | USN |
| Ubuntu (Jammy) | 22 | 04 (LTS) | USN |
Supported programming languages
Amazon Inspector supports the following programming languages:
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C#
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Golang
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Java
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Javascript
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PHP
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Python
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Ruby
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Rust
