What is the primary purpose of Amazon Inspector?

The primary purpose of Amazon Inspector is to automate the security assessment of applications deployed on AWS. This service is designed to help identify vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices in your applications and their configurations. By conducting automatic security assessments, Amazon Inspector enables developers and security teams to spot potential security risks early in the development process or before deployment, ensuring that applications are more secure and compliant with established standards.

Amazon Inspector scans the environment and generates findings with actionable recommendations, enhancing the security posture of applications running in AWS. This proactive approach allows organizations to address vulnerabilities promptly, reducing the risk of security incidents and protecting sensitive data.

The other options focus on different aspects of cloud services that are not the main function of Amazon Inspector. Real-time monitoring of application performance pertains to monitoring tools rather than security assessments. Managing user permissions is a characteristic of identity and access management services like AWS IAM, while optimizing resource allocation relates to cost management and utilization tools, rather than the security assessment capabilities offered by Amazon Inspector.