AWS APIs used by EC2 Connector to discover assets

Qualys uses three APIs to discover EC2 instances and identify additional information about those instances from an AWS account. These APIs are available on the Amazon AWS web site locations mentioned below.

• DescribeInstances API

  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeInstances.html

• DescribeImages API

  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeImages.html

• DescribeNetworkInterfaces API

  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeNetworkInterfaces.html

The Discovery job can be run on demand or with the default frequency (every 4 hours). This frequency is currently not configurable.