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prowler aws — Assess AWS security best practices, perform audits, compliance checks, and generate reports. See als

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Problem

How to use the prowler aws command: Assess AWS security best practices, perform audits, compliance checks, and generate reports. See also: prowler, prowler-azure, prowler-gcp, prowler-kubernetes, prowler-m365, prowler-github. More information: <https://docs.prowler.com/user-guide/cli/tutorials/misc>.

Solution

prowler aws — Assess AWS security best practices, perform audits, compliance checks, and generate reports. See also: prowler, prowler-azure, prowler-gcp, prowler-kubernetes, prowler-m365, prowler-github. More information: <https://docs.prowler.com/user-guide/cli/tutorials/misc>.

Run the default set of checks on the AWS account:

prowler aws

Use a custom AWS profile and filter audited regions:

prowler aws {{[-p|--profile]}} {{custom-profile}} {{[-f|--filter-region]}} {{us-east-1 eu-south-2 ...}}

Run checks for selected AWS services:

prowler aws {{[-s|--services]}} {{s3|ec2|...}}

Run a specific AWS check:

prowler aws {{[-c|--checks]}} {{s3_bucket_public_access}}

Exclude specific checks or services:

prowler aws {{[-e|--excluded-checks]}} {{s3_bucket_public_access}} --exclude-services {{s3|ec2|...}}

Code Snippets

Run the default set of checks on the AWS account

prowler aws

Use a custom AWS profile and filter audited regions

prowler aws {{[-p|--profile]}} {{custom-profile}} {{[-f|--filter-region]}} {{us-east-1 eu-south-2 ...}}

Run checks for selected AWS services

prowler aws {{[-s|--services]}} {{s3|ec2|...}}

Run a specific AWS check

prowler aws {{[-c|--checks]}} {{s3_bucket_public_access}}

Exclude specific checks or services

prowler aws {{[-e|--excluded-checks]}} {{s3_bucket_public_access}} --exclude-services {{s3|ec2|...}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/prowler aws

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