AWS Security
AWS security assessment techniques including IAM exploitation, S3 enumeration, privilege escalation, and AWS-specific attack vectors for penetration testing.
Overview
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's largest cloud provider, hosting critical infrastructure for organizations of all sizes. Understanding AWS security is essential for cloud penetration testers and security professionals.
AWS Security Articles
- Security Assessment Methodology - Comprehensive AWS testing framework
- S3 Bucket Enumeration - Storage misconfiguration discovery
- IAM Privilege Escalation - Permission escalation techniques
Key AWS Services for Security Testing
Identity Services
- IAM - Users, groups, roles, policies
- STS - Temporary security credentials
- SSO - Single sign-on integration
- Organizations - Multi-account management
Compute Services
- EC2 - Virtual machines with metadata service
- Lambda - Serverless with execution role abuse
- ECS/EKS - Container services
Storage Services
- S3 - Object storage (common misconfiguration)
- EBS - Block storage snapshots
- EFS - File system shares
Network Services
- VPC - Virtual private cloud
- Security Groups - Instance firewall rules
- NACLs - Network access control lists
Common AWS Misconfigurations
- Overly permissive IAM policies -
*:*actions and resources - Public S3 buckets - ACLs allowing public access
- Exposed credentials - Keys in code, environment variables
- Weak security groups - 0.0.0.0/0 inbound rules
- Unencrypted resources - S3, EBS, RDS without encryption
AWS Enumeration Commands
# List IAM users
aws iam list-users
# Get current identity
aws sts get-caller-identity
# List S3 buckets
aws s3 ls
# List EC2 instances
aws ec2 describe-instances
# Check IAM policies attached to user
aws iam list-attached-user-policies --user-name TARGETEssential Tools
- Pacu - AWS exploitation framework
- Prowler - Security best practices assessment
- ScoutSuite - Multi-cloud security auditing
- enumerate-iam - IAM permission enumeration
- S3Scanner - S3 bucket enumeration
Related Resources
- Azure AD Attacks - Microsoft cloud
- Container Security - ECS/EKS security
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Cloud security assessment and exploitation techniques for AWS, Azure, and GCP including IAM attacks, storage misconfiguration, and cloud-native vulnerabilities.
AWS Security Assessment Methodology
Systematic methodology for AWS security assessments covering IAM analysis, S3 bucket enumeration, EC2 exploitation, and cloud-native attack techniques.