Welcome to AWS for Tenable Vulnerability Management

Last Updated: April 09, 2025

This document describes how to deploy Tenable Vulnerability Management® for integration with Amazon Web Services.

With more than one million users, Tenable Nessus® is the world’s most widely deployed vulnerability, configuration, and compliance assessment product. Tenable Nessus prevents attacks by identifying the vulnerabilities, configuration issues, and malware that hackers could use to penetrate your network. It is as important to run these assessments in AWS as it is in any other IT environment. Amazon recommends that all new and existing AWS customers scan their AWS instances while in development and operations and before publishing to AWS users. The AWS Connector provides real-time visibility and inventory of EC2 assets in AWS by querying the AWS API.

Note: To manage existing AWS connectors, see Manage Connectors in the Tenable Vulnerability Management User Guide.

Tip: For common connector errors, see Connectors in the Tenable Developer Portal.