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AWS Penetration Testing Services
Most cloud breaches trace back to misconfigured IAM roles, overly permissive S3 buckets, and unmonitored API calls. Our AWS penetration testing services focus on how AWS environments actually get compromised. We test IAM policies, EC2 instances, S3 buckets, Lambda functions, and VPC configurations, and provide a clear remediation plan, with specific fix guidance for each issue.
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What Makes AWS Pentesting Different
Attackers don't need network access when misconfigured API permissions give them direct access to AWS resources. This is an attack vector that traditional penetration testing is not designed to catch.
Policies, roles, and trust relationships interact in non-obvious ways. A single overly permissive role can give an attacker full account access from a low-privilege entry point.
AWS secures the underlying infrastructure. IAM configurations, network controls, encryption, and application logic within the broader AWS ecosystem are your responsibility and require separate, targeted assessment beyond what AWS provides.
Auto-scaled instances, short-lived Lambda functions, and temporary credentials appear and disappear dynamically. Testing must account for this variability, or entire attack paths go untested.
AWS Services We Test
We test for IMDS misconfigurations, weak security group rules, exposed instance metadata, and privilege escalation via instance profiles.
Publicly accessible buckets, misconfigured ACLs, missing encryption, and insecure bucket policies are among the most common findings in S3 assessments.
We map overly permissive policies, unused roles, exploitable trust relationships, and privilege escalation paths across the account.
Functions are analyzed for hardcoded credentials, excessive execution roles, insecure environment variables, and event injection vulnerabilities.
AWS pen testing services cover public accessibility, weak authentication, unencrypted data in transit, and overly permissive security group exposure.
We test for origin access misconfigurations, missing security headers, and cache poisoning vulnerabilities.
Missing authentication controls, injection vulnerabilities, improper resource policies, and insecure method-level permissions are assessed across all endpoints.
RBAC misconfigurations, exposed Kubernetes dashboards, insecure pod security settings, and container escape risks are all covered in our Amazon Web Services penetration testing services.
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Our Approaches to AWS Pentesting
AWS external penetration testing
External testing simulates an attacker with no prior access to your cloud environment. We target publicly exposed AWS services: S3 buckets, API Gateway endpoints, CloudFront distributions, public-facing EC2 instances, and RDS databases accessible from the internet. The goal is to identify what an outside attacker can reach, exploit, and extract before your team detects them.
AWS internal penetration testing
Internal testing simulates an attacker who already has a foothold, whether through compromised credentials, a phishing attack, or a malicious insider. Our Amazon Web Services pen testing services focus on what the attacker can do once inside: escalating privileges, moving laterally between services, accessing sensitive data beyond their permission scope, and evading detection through CloudTrail gaps or misconfigured alerting.
Common AWS Vulnerabilities We Find
Across AWS pen testing services, the same classes of security vulnerabilities appear repeatedly, regardless of company size or industry. The most common findings include:
AWS Penetration Testing Process
Before testing begins, we define exactly what is in scope: AWS account IDs, regions, services, and any restricted or limited areas. We align on objectives, testing type (black, grey, or white box), timeline, and rules of engagement. Where required, we obtain written authorization in line with AWS's penetration testing policy.
We enumerate your AWS environment to establish a full attack surface map and identify potential attack vectors. During this phase, we analyze services, IAM principals, networking relationships, storage resources, and externally exposed assets such as public endpoints, S3 buckets, and CloudFront distributions. This process frequently discovers misconfigurations before active testing even begins.
Using findings from reconnaissance, we attempt to gain initial access through misconfigured APIs, exposed credentials, insecure bucket policies, and other entry points. Each successful exploitation is documented with full reproduction steps and evidence of impact.
Once initial access is established, we attempt to escalate privileges across the account. This includes role chaining, IAM policy abuse, metadata service exploitation, and lateral movement between services and accounts.
Findings are documented in a structured report covering vulnerability description, severity rating, reproduction steps, and specific remediation guidance. Every security issue is prioritized by exploitability and potential business impact rather than just CVSS score.
After delivery, we walk your engineering team through the findings, answer technical questions, and clarify remediation steps. Once fixes are applied, we retest flagged vulnerabilities to confirm they are fully resolved.
AWS Pentesting for Compliance
Many US regulatory frameworks explicitly require or strongly recommend regular penetration testing. AWS pen testing services help organizations meet these requirements with documented evidence that auditors can act on.
Our Team
Ihor is a certified security specialist with experience in penetration testing, security testing automation, cloud and mobile security. OWASP API Security Top 10 (2019) contributor. OWASP member since 2018.
Roman is an AWS Expert at TechMagic. Helps teams to improve system reliability, optimise testing efforts, speed up release cycles & build confidence in product quality.
Victoria is a certified security specialist with a background in penetration testing, security testing automation, AWS cloud. Eager for enhancing software security posture and AWS solutions
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In-depth VPN server pentest for a software development company
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To ensure the security of existing functionality TechMagic provided BlackBird with security testing service, including one Black Box VPN Server pentest in accordance with best practices, PTES, OWASP testing guide, and Penetration testing methodologies. The team's project management was effective and fast. They delivered the project adhering to strict deadlines and expected outcomes. Their professionalism and transparency were impressive.
Orest Kutiuk
Technical Project Manager, BlackBird Lab
Conducting a pentest for a Danish software development company
See how we helped Coach Solutions improve the security of their web application
In-depth VPN server pentest for a software development company
See how we helped Blackbird enhance the security of their VPN server infrastructure
To ensure the security of existing functionality TechMagic provided BlackBird with security testing service, including one Black Box VPN Server pentest in accordance with best practices, PTES, OWASP testing guide, and Penetration testing methodologies. The team's project management was effective and fast. They delivered the project adhering to strict deadlines and expected outcomes. Their professionalism and transparency were impressive.
Orest Kutiuk
Technical Project Manager, BlackBird Lab
Conducting a pentest for a Danish software development company
See how we helped Coach Solutions improve the security of their web application
What You Get: AWS Pentest Deliverables
Why Choose TechMagic For AWS Penetration Testing
Our TechMagic team holds AWS Security Specialty, PenTest+, CEH, eCPPT, eWPTX, and AI/ML-Pen certifications, alongside CREST accreditation. Our penetration testers are active AWS Community Builders, recognized for their contributions to the AWS security community. We test the way attackers operate, using the same tools and techniques used in actual breaches.
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