Audit cloud accounts for security misconfigurations with Prowler

Run targeted AWS, Azure, or GCP security and compliance audits when an agent needs actionable cloud findings instead of a generic cloud-security platform overview.

Prerequisites

Python or Docker runtime, cloud account credentials, optional AWS CLI or equivalent cloud auth setup

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• docker compose up -d
• git clone https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler
• uv sync
• docker compose up postgres valkey -d

Requirements and caveats from upstream:

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• For detailed instructions on using Prowler App, refer to the Prowler App Usage Guide.

• If you want to use AWS role assumption (e.g., with the "Connect assuming IAM Role" option), you may need to mount your local .aws directory into the container as a volume (e.g., - "${HOME}/.aws:/home/prowler/.aws:ro")...

• Commands to run the API

• Source: https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/prowler-cloud/prowler/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler#readme

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange