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AWS penetration testing is part of our broader cloud penetration testing services, covering Azure, AWS and Google Cloud environments.
Our dedicated team of certified penetration testers brings a wealth of experience in cloud security. We understand the intricacies of AWS architecture and the unique challenges it presents. With Bluefire Redteam, you can expect:
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IAM is where the highest-severity AWS findings almost always originate. We map the effective permissions of every user, role and service account, then identify escalation paths — including iam:PassRole combined with compute services, policy version manipulation, lambda:UpdateFunctionCode against privileged functions, and role assumption chains that terminate in administrative access.
Bucket policies, ACLs, public access block configuration, pre-signed URL handling, encryption at rest, and cross-account bucket access. We identify both publicly exposed buckets and those reachable by identities that should not have them.
Instance metadata service configuration (IMDSv1 vs IMDSv2), credential theft via SSRF to the metadata endpoint, security group exposure, EBS snapshot and AMI permissions, and SSM access paths.
Function execution role permissions, environment variable secrets, event source injection, API Gateway authorisation flaws, and Lambda-based privilege escalation.
Cluster RBAC, IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) misconfiguration, pod-level credential theft, privileged container breakout to the underlying node, and ECR image supply chain risk.
VPC segmentation, security group and NACL rules, peering and Transit Gateway trust, exposed load balancers, and VPC endpoint policy.
Cross-account trust policies, AWS Organizations SCP effectiveness, delegated administrator risk, and identity federation via IAM Identity Center.
Whether CloudTrail, GuardDuty and Config actually detected our activity — including coverage gaps across regions and accounts, and log integrity controls.
At Bluefire Redteam, we follow a structured process to ensure thorough testing and meaningful results:
If your environment is hosted on Amazon Web Services, review our in-depth AWS penetration testing guide to understand scope limitations, AWS policies, and real-world exploitation scenarios.
AWS permits customer-initiated penetration testing against your own resources for approved services — including EC2, RDS, Aurora, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, Lightsail and Elastic Beanstalk — without requiring prior approval.
Prohibited without separate authorisation from AWS:
How we work within the policy:
For a deeper breakdown of AWS policy and scope limitations, see our AWS penetration testing guide.
Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by malicious actors.
Enhance your overall security by understanding your AWS environment’s weaknesses.
Investing in penetration testing can save you from costly data breaches and compliance penalties.
While this guide explains enterprise cloud testing strategies, our dedicated cloud penetration testing services Buyer’s Guide page outlines engagement scope, deliverables, and reporting structure.
Real-Time Vulnerability Management: Effortlessly manage findings – moving a vulnerability from “open” to “in progress” shows active patching, while transitioning to “verification” prompts a patch check.
Immediate Security Insights: The dashboard centralizes all relevant security metrics, providing security teams with immediate insights into their current security posture. The current risk meter, real-time activity feed, and vulnerability statistics offer a real-time snapshot of the organization’s security landscape.
Seamless integration with Jira: Integrate the platform with Jira cloud and raise tickets to start working on the findings internally.
Real-Time Reporting: Download real-time comprehensive reports and access vulnerability findings, remediation, and references with one click.
It is recommended to conduct penetration testing at least annually or after significant changes to your AWS infrastructure.
We can test a wide range of AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and more, based on your specific needs.
Our AWS penetration testing services adhere to various compliance standards, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and others, depending on your industry requirements. We align our testing methodologies with these standards to ensure that your AWS environment meets the necessary regulatory requirements.
For most services, no. AWS permits customer-initiated testing of your own resources against approved services without prior approval. Simulated DDoS, port flooding and DNS zone walking require separate authorisation, and we exclude them by default.
Typically a read-only IAM role (SecurityAudit or an equivalent scoped policy) plus a defined list of in-scope accounts. For grey-box testing we may request limited credentials to simulate a compromised user.
No. Testing is rate-limited, destructive techniques are excluded, and anything with potential availability impact requires explicit approval and a scheduled window.
Yes. Multi-account estates frequently contain the most serious findings — cross-account trust relationships and SCP gaps that allow movement between accounts.
Typically one to three weeks depending on account count, deployed services, and whether container and application layers are in scope.
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