AWS Penetration Testing Services

A configuration review tells you what could go wrong. Penetration testing tells you whether it actually does, by attempting real exploitation, under controlled, authorized conditions, against your AWS-hosted applications and infrastructure. That distinction matters: a misconfiguration that looks risky on paper might be unreachable in practice, and a chain of individually low-severity issues can combine into something serious that a configuration scan alone would never surface.

AWS has its own customer support policy for security testing, built around a published list of services you can test without prior approval, EC2, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, API Gateway, and most other commonly-used compute, networking, and database services among them. A separate set of activities is flatly prohibited regardless of service (DNS zone walking or hijacking, real or simulated DoS/DDoS outside AWS's dedicated DDoS testing policy, port or protocol flooding, S3 or subdomain takeover), and a further tier, Red/Blue/Purple Team exercises, simulated phishing, anything involving Command and Control infrastructure, requires prior authorization through AWS with real lead time. We scope every engagement against AWS's current permitted-services list and prohibited-activities list, and handle any required prior-authorization coordination as part of the engagement, not as an afterthought.

Testing follows an industry-recognized methodology (aligned with PTES and OWASP where applications are involved), covering the AWS control plane (IAM, API access, misconfigurations) and, where in scope, the applications and workloads running on top of it. Every finding comes with a working proof of concept and a clear, actionable fix, not a raw vulnerability scanner printout relabeled as a report.