PAWSP
Altered Security

Pentesting AWS Practitioner

Intermediate Theory + practical Pass: Passing $249

AWS pentesting — IAM privilege escalation, S3 misconfigs, Lambda abuse, EC2 SSRF.

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IssuerAltered Security
FormatTheory + practical
DurationSelf-paced
Pass ScorePassing
Full Syllabus
AWS Fundamentals & Enumeration 15%
IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, VPC concepts; AWS CLI enumeration methodology
IAM Privilege Escalation 20%
IAM policy analysis, PassRole abuse, CreateRole, AttachRolePolicy, iam:* permissions
EC2 & Metadata Attacks 15%
IMDSv1 credential theft, IMDSv2 bypass, SSRF to metadata, user-data secrets
S3 Security 15%
Bucket enumeration, public bucket data theft, bucket policy misconfigs, pre-signed URLs
Lambda & Serverless 10%
Lambda environment variable secrets, event injection, function URL abuse
Cross-Account Attacks 10%
Assume-role chains, resource-based policy abuse, external ID bypass
CloudTrail Evasion & Persistence 15%
Log evasion techniques, backdoor IAM users, access key rotation, event suppression