AWS Continuum for penetration testing (formerly AWS Security Agent)

Vendor: Amazon Web Services · HQ: United States · Category: Security · Code security

Last verified 18 Oct 2026 · Added 18 Oct 2026 · 2 sources · How we verify

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What it does

AWS Continuum is Amazon Web Services' agentic security service. Its frontier agent, formerly known as AWS Security Agent, secures applications through the development lifecycle. Continuum for penetration testing runs on-demand pentests that AWS says cut testing from weeks to hours: it identifies validated vulnerabilities through tailored multi-step attack scenarios, with reproducible proof and ready-to-implement fixes. Customers set graduated trust, from Continuum proposing actions for human approval to actions it may take on its own within customer-defined guardrails. Related Continuum capabilities for code scanning and STRIDE threat modelling are in preview, and Continuum for code vulnerabilities is a gated preview with design partners, so this listing covers the penetration-testing capability only. Pentesting is priced at $50 per task-hour, metered per second, with the first three revalidations per finding free.

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Pricing (as published)

$50.00 per task-hour (metered per second; concurrent tasks add up, so billable task-hours usually exceed wall-clock time). First three revalidations per finding are free; a free trial is offered (aws.amazon.com/continuum/pricing).

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Sources

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