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AWS Continuum Features

Features overview

AWS Continuum discovers, prioritizes, validates, and remediates security risks across the software lifecycle, at machine speed and within the guardrails you define. Before code ships, it finds risks in your designs and code. Once your systems are running, it decides which risks matter to your business, proves which are exploitable, and drives toward a fix.

Continuum for code vulnerabilities

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    Discovers candidate code vulnerabilities by creating threat models from your code, deploying hunters to surface issues, deduplicating findings, and validating each against the code itself. The result is a curated set of candidate vulnerabilities, ready for prioritization, and sandbox validation downstream.

    Stitches together your code repositories and your running AWS environment into one security graph, with code dependencies, resource topology, identity chains, and network paths. This is how Continuum connects a vulnerability in your code to the context of your environment.

    Confirms which findings are exploitable by attempting to exploit them in an isolated sandbox with reproduction steps, so your team knows what is real and what is noise.

    Prioritizes findings by blast radius, downstream impact, and business criticality, so your team works on what matters instead of processing thousands of unvalidated findings.    

    Delivers patches as pull requests directly to developer workflows with exploitability proof and blast radius assessment attached, shifting from manual coordination to faster resolution.

    AWS harnesses multiple frontier cyber models on your behalf, selecting the right model for each task, so you get validated, context-aware findings without procuring model access or building your own scanning pipeline. Model agnostic and built to incorporate the latest and most capable models as they emerge.

Continuum for penetration testing (formerly known as AWS Security Agent)

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    Delivers on-demand testing by deploying specialized AI agents to discover and report validated security vulnerabilities. Identifies complex vulnerabilities through tailored multi-step attack scenarios by testing web applications and APIs against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities as well as business logic flaws.

    Validates security findings through exploitation, delivering reproducible exploit paths, comprehensive impact analysis, and ready-to-implement fixes in developer-friendly language.

    Transforms slow and resource-intensive periodic penetration tests into ongoing testing that matches your development speed. Organizations can expand penetration testing beyond just critical applications and secure their entire portfolio with the same resources.

    Understands your application's context by learning from your source code and documentation to identify and exploit vulnerabilities that automated security scanning tools cannot find. Crafts targeted attack scenarios that validate real exploitable risks, not just surface-level findings.

    Continuum gives you consistent application security testing across AWS, hybrid, and multicloud environments, against public or private VPC endpoints, on other clouds (such as Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud) or anywhere else you deploy.

    Generate comprehensive reports that include executive summaries, detailed findings with CVSS scores, remediation guidance, and compliance mappings. Export to PDF for distribution to security teams, compliance officers, or external auditors.