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AWS Pentesting Course
Break AWS. Escalate IAM. Own Cloud Environments.

A live, hands-on AWS Pentesting course where you exploit real cloud misconfigurations - not watch slides.

✔️ Real attack paths
✔️ 70% labs + 30% theory
✔️ Live AWS labs
✔️ AWS environment exploitation
✔️ IAM escalation & abuse
✔️ EC2, Lambda & API compromise
✔️ S3 & metadata enumeration
✔️ Cross-account trust abuse
✔️ Lateral pivoting in cloud networks
✔️ Network control bypass
✔️ Automated attack chain building
❌ No theory padding
❌ No hand-holding

🔴 If you don’t enroll, you fall behind

Duration: 25 hrs

⏳ Price increases soon
🔥 Lab seats limited

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AWS Pentesting Course Overview

Welcome to the AWS Pentesting Course - a comprehensive, hands-on AWS full course designed for security professionals who want to go beyond theory and master offensive operations inside Amazon Web Services environments. This intensive program covers everything from initial reconnaissance to persistence, walking participants through real-world attack paths across IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, GuardDuty, and other core AWS services. Unlike standard AWS certification training programs that focus primarily on architecture and administration, this course is built entirely around an attacker's perspective - giving you the offensive cloud expertise that red teams and penetration testers actually need on the job.

If you're exploring AWS course details and trying to decide how to get AWS certified in offensive cloud security, this is the program that goes far beyond what AWS training and certification programmes typically cover. Using a fully hosted lab platform, participants perform live exploitation exercises that replicate real AWS attack paths seen in actual red team engagements. By the end of the course, you'll have earned your AWS certificate - the Certified AWS Penetration Tester (CAPT) - and you'll have the practical skills to prove it under real attack conditions, not a multiple-choice exam.

Is AWS Pentesting Course For You?

✅ This IS for you if:
  • You understand basic AWS services like IAM, EC2, and S3
  • You want the best AWS course, for real-world cloud pentesting - not just certification prep
  • You’re a pentester, red teamer, or security professional expanding into cloud
  • You want hands-on labs covering IAM abuse, misconfigurations, SSRF, and privilege escalation
  • You want AWS certification training that validates hands-on exploitation skills, not multiple-choice knowledge
  • You want skills that actually translate to real AWS attack paths
❌ This is NOT for you if:
  • You are completely new to cloud concepts
  • You’re looking for an AWS fundamentals or certification-only course
  • You want a purely blue-team or SOC-focused cloud security course
  • You prefer theory and videos over hands-on exploitation
  • You want shortcuts without understanding real cloud attack tradecraft

Prerequisites

  • Basic Linux Knowledge
  • Basic Pentesting & Security Concepts
  • Basic Command Line Skills

AWS Pentesting Course Curriculum

AWS Pentesting Course

139 Learning Materials

Module 1: AWS & AWS Pentesting

Intro to AWS Pentesting Course

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00:00:41

Accessing AWS Pentesting Labs

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00:04:42

Overview of AWS

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00:04:42

Cyber Kill Chain (AWS Cloud)

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00:03:22

What is AWS Pentesting

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00:04:58

Initial Access Scenarios in AWS Cloud

Video
00:06:09

Real World Case Studies

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00:12:02

Module 2: Learning AWS Cloud Basics - A Practical Approach

AWS Cloud Basics

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00:00:44

AWS Account

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00:04:53

AWS Architecture

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00:14:02

AWS Pentesting Practical - A look at an AWS Account

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00:11:04

AWS Pentesting Practical - Creating an AWS User

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00:06:01

AWS Pentesting Practical - Giving Permssion to an AWS User

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00:09:30

AWS Pentesting Practical - Creating your first AWS EC2 Instance

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00:06:49

AWS Pentesting Practical - Creating your first AWS S3 Bucket

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00:02:41

AWS Pentesting Practical - Setting up MFA

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00:02:12

Module 3: Deep Dive into AWS IAM Service

Understanding AWS IAM Service

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00:04:52

AWS IAM Identities

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00:02:26

Taking a deep dive into AWS IAM Roles

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00:21:07

AWS Pentesting Practical - AWS IAM Role Usage (Service to Service)

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00:11:32

AWS Pentesting Practical - AWS IAM Role Usage (Account to Account)

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00:41:19

AWS IAM Role Usage (External ID to Service)

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00:00:37

AWS IAM Access Keys

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00:00:37

AWS Pentesting Practical - Solving your first Lab

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00:18:49

AWS Pentesting Practical - Automating the Enumeration with aws-enumerator

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00:07:25

Understanding AWS ARN

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00:03:10

Module 4: Understanding different types of AWS IAM Policies

Types of Policies in AWS IAM

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00:00:54

IAM Identity Permission Policy

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00:09:35

Practical - IAM Identity Permission Policy

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00:04:28

Few More Examples

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00:04:46

Types of IAM Identity Permission Policy

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00:04:47

Practical - IAM Identity Permission Policy

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00:04:28

Resource Based Policy

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00:03:08

Bucket Resource Policy

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00:06:45

Bucket Resource Policy - Examples

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00:04:19

Practical - Bucket Resource Policy

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00:05:25

Trust Policy

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00:08:15

Permission Boundary

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00:08:42

Practical - Permission Boundary

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00:15:22

Session Policies

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00:03:50

Practical - Session Policies

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00:13:22

Module 5: AWS Organizations and their Policy Types

AWS Organizations

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00:04:16

AWS Pentesting Practical - AWS Organizations

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00:02:11

Service Control Policies

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00:05:44

AWS Pentesting Practical - Service Control Policies

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00:12:14

Resource Control Policies

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00:04:42

AWS Pentesting Practical - Resource Control Policies

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00:12:14

Policy Evaluation Logic

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00:11:35

Module 6: Common AWS IAM Misconfigurations

Misconfiguration 1 - Wildcard Everywhere

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00:01:54

Misconfiguration 2 - Inline Privileged Policy

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00:01:52

Misconfiguration 3 - Over-Permissive Trust Policy

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00:02:10

Misconfiguration 4 - Over-Permissive Resource Based Policy

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00:00:46

Maybe a Misconfiguration 5 - AWS KMS Key Policy

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00:01:50

Misconfiguration 6 - NotAction or NotResource

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00:01:57

Module 7: AWS IAM Initial Access

AWS Pentesting Practical - AWS Account ID Manual Enumeration (Public AWS S3 Buckets)

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00:29:50

AWS Pentesting Practical - AWS Account ID Automated Enumeration (Public AWS S3 Buckets)

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00:12:21

AWS Pentesting Practical - AWS Account ID Enumeration (AMIs and Snapshots)

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00:04:44

AWS Pentesting Practical - Manual Enumeration of Users and Roles

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00:05:12

AWS Pentesting Practical - Automated Enumeration of Users and Roles (Pacu)

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00:20:40

AWS Pentesting Practical - Initial Access - Weak Credential in Use

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00:15:03

Module 8: AWS IAM Enumeration

Enumeration Basics

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00:03:39

AWS Pentesting Practical - General Enumeration

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00:09:11

AWS Pentesting Practical - User Enumeration

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00:09:49

AWS Pentesting Practical - Group Enumeration

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00:02:21

AWS Pentesting Practical - Role Enumeration

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00:03:54

AWS Pentesting Practical - Policy Enumeration

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00:16:25

AWS Pentesting Practical - Service Enumeration

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00:04:40

Module 9: AWS IAM Exploitation & Privilege Escalation & Persistence

AWS Pentesting Practical - Change Group Membership

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00:18:06

AWS Pentesting Practical - Creating a New Policy Version

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00:25:43

Setting the Default Policy Version

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00:01:55

Creating User Access Key

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Creating a New Login Profile

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00:01:59

Updating an Existing Login Profile

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00:01:41

Attaching a Policy (User, Group & Role)

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00:02:33

Creating/Updating an Inline Policy (User, Group & Role)

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00:02:57

Updating the AssumeRolePolicyDocument of a Role

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00:02:21

AWS IAM Persistence

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00:03:44

Module 10: AWS STS & AWS KMS Service

AWS STS Basics & Misconfiguration

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00:02:30

AWS KMS Basics & Practical

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00:15:38

Enumerating & Finding Misconfigurations

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00:09:21

Module 11: AWS SecretsManager Service & AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store

AWS SecretsManager Basics and Enumerating Secrets

Video
00:24:08

AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store Basics and Enumerating Parameters

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00:09:13

Module 12: AWS EC2 Service

AWS EC2 Basics & Practical

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00:26:06

Initial Access & Enumeration

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00:22:49

AWS Pentesting Practical 1 - Exploitation & Priv Esc

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00:21:58

AWS Pentesting Practical 2 - Exploitation & Priv Esc

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00:19:58

Few More Exploitation & Priv Esc

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00:01:52

Module 13: AWS S3 Service

AWS S3 Basics & Practical

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00:07:31

Real World Case Studies

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00:03:20

Initial Access, Enumeration & Exploitation

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00:08:44

AWS Pentesting Practical - Initial Access, Enumeration & Exploitation

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00:17:24

Module 14: AWS Lambda Service

AWS Lambda Basics

Video
00:14:25

AWS Pentesting Practical - Creating your first AWS Lambda Function

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00:28:36

AWS Pentesting Practical - Creating your second AWS Lambda Function

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00:19:21

AWS Pentesting Practical - AWS Lambda Enumeration

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00:18:43

AWS Pentesting Practical - AWS Lambda Exploitation 1

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00:35:19

AWS Pentesting Practical - Lambda AWS Exploitation 2

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00:21:37

Creating a AWS Serverless Application

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00:27:51

Module 15: AWS API Gateway

AWS API Gateway Basics

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00:20:42

AWS Pentesting Practical - Creating a Vulnerable AWS API Gateway and Exploiting it

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00:40:52

AWS Pentesting Practical - Exploiting API keys

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00:23:52

AWS API Gateway Authorizers

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00:02:53

AWS Pentesting Practical - Lambda Authorizer

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00:17:17

AWS IAM Authorizer

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00:14:23

AWS Cognito User pool Authorizer

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00:02:32

AWS Pentesting Practical - API Gateway Enumeration

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00:07:54

Module 16: AWS Cognito

AWS Cognito

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00:01:41

AWS Cognito User pools

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00:08:42

AWS Pentesting Practical - Creating your first User Pool

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00:18:41

AWS Cognito Identity pool

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00:07:01

AWS Pentesting Practical - Creating your first Identity Pool

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00:10:26

AWS Pentesting Practical - Exploiting Unauthenticated (Guest) Identity pool

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00:18:50

AWS Pentesting Practical - Exploiting Self Registration Feature

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00:22:20

AWS Pentesting Practical - Exploiting Custom Attributes

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00:10:41

AWS Pentesting Practical - AWS Cognito Enumeration

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00:06:43

Module 17: AWS DynamoDB

AWS DynamoDB Basics

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00:05:21

Creating your first AWS DynamoDB Table

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00:05:21

Module 18: AWS IAM Identity Center

AWS IAM Identity Center Basics

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00:05:39

AWS Pentesting Practical - AWS IAM Identity Center

Video
00:23:30

AWS Pentesting Practical - Enumerating IAM Identity Center

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00:34:34

Module 19: AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail Basics

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00:03:51

AWS Pentesting Practical - Creating your first AWS CloudTrail

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00:23:59

AWS Pentesting Practical - Analyzing the logs

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00:13:33

Bypassing AWS CloudTrail Logging

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00:14:38

Module 20: AWS GuardDuty

AWS GuardDuty Basics

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00:05:41

Enumerating & Bypassing AWS GuardDuty

Video
00:30:55

Module 21: AWS Pentest Tools

Boto3

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00:08:45

ScoutSuite

Video
00:23:51

Prowler

Video
00:20:20

PMapper

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00:15:30

Cloudsplaining

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00:07:39

Cloudfox

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00:12:11

Pacu

Video
00:33:33

Module 22: Report Writing & CAPT Exam

AWS Pentesting Report Writing

Video
00:39:44

CAPT Exam

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00:04:44

Module 23: Course Resources

AWS Pentesting Course PPT

PPT

AWS Pentesting Course Commands & Scripts

ZIP

AWS Pentesting Template Report

DOC

Module 24: CAPT Certification and Exam

CAPT Certification and Exam

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00:01:02

AWS Pentesting Course Instructor

AWS Pentesting Course Instructor

Shashi Kant Prasad

Principal Security Consultant
Shashi Kant Prasad is a skilled red teamer at Redfox Security with expertise in Web, Cloud, Hardware, DevOps, and Red Teaming. He also trains peers at top security conferences.

Testimonials
RT
February 4
The AWS Pentesting Course by Redfox Cybersecurity Academy delivers exactly what advanced learners need. Over 25 hours, I worked through realistic AWS attack surfaces, from reconnaissance to persistence. The hands-on practical learning ensured that I was not just understanding theory but actually executing attack paths. Completing this program gave me much stronger confidence in offensive cloud operations. 
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Samantha Green
I found the AWS Pentesting Course by Redfox Cybersecurity Academy to be one of the most hands-on cloud security programs available. The hosted lab platform made it easy to practice live exploitation across IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, and Cognito. The focus on stealth and evasion techniques added serious depth. The certification enhanced my professional credibility. 
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AR
The 25-hour AWS Pentesting Course by Redfox Cybersecurity Academy was extremely intensive and practical. The fully hosted lab platform allowed me to exploit real-world IAM, EC2, and S3 misconfigurations step by step. Learning privilege escalation, credential abuse, and persistence techniques gave me a true attacker mindset. This course completely changed how I view cloud security. 
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Daniel Brooks
January 7
The AWS Pentesting Course by Redfox Cybersecurity Academy goes far beyond theory. Across 25 hours of structured content, I performed live exploitation on services like Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, and GuardDuty. The practical learning approach made complex cloud attack paths easy to understand. The certification added strong credibility to my profile. 
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SN
October 27, 2025
What makes the AWS Pentesting Course by Redfox Cybersecurity Academy stand out is the real-world attack simulation. From reconnaissance to cross-account abuse and credential theft, everything is hands-on. The labs helped me understand how vulnerabilities can be chained together in actual red team scenarios. The learning experience was intense and highly valuable. 
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Liam Carter
December 1, 2025
The Web Hacking Extreme Course exceeded my expectations in terms of technical depth. With 15+ hours of structured content and continuous hands-on labs, the learning experience felt like real-world penetration testing engagements. The practical challenges forced me to think critically and refine my methodology. The certification from Redfox Cybersecurity Academy added global credibility to my profile and played a major role in my promotion. 
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AWS Pentesting Lab Portal

AWS Penetration Testing Training Lab Portal

Key Takeaways

  • Life time access to course and resources.
  • 30 days of free lab access.
  • Private Discord community access for direct support and networking.
  • One attempt at the Certified AWS Penetration Tester Exam (CAPT).
  • A professionally structured report template is provided for use in real-world engagements.

Certified AWS Penetration Tester (CAPT)

Earn the Certified AWS Penetration Tester (CAPT) - the most practical AWS certification available for offensive security professionals. Unlike traditional AWS certification training programmes built around theory and multiple-choice exams, the CAPT validates your ability to conduct real-world attack simulations against live AWS environments. It's the definitive answer to how to get AWS certified as an offensive cloud security specialist. Participants receive the CAPT certificate upon completing the course and passing the practical exam - making it one of the most credible AWS certificates you can add to your resume or LinkedIn profile. This certification prepares you for roles like Cloud Penetration Tester, Red Teamer (Cloud), and AWS Security Consultant.

Please note - This is not a multiple-choice cert. You earn it by exploiting real AWS environments under attack conditions.

AWS Pentest Certification CAPT

This is not a multiple-choice cert.
You earn it by exploiting real AWS environments under attack conditions.

Frequently Asked Questions
How long do I have access to the course materials?
All courses at Redfox Cybersecurity Academy are self-paced, and you will have lifetime access to all course materials, including video lectures, downloadable resources, and recorded sessions. You can learn at your own pace and revisit the content anytime. 
How long do I have access to the lab environment?
Each course includes 30 days of lab access from the date of enrollment. This provides hands-on practice in a real-world simulation environment. If you need additional time, lab access can be extended on a paid basis by contacting training@redfoxsec.com 
Is an exam included with the course?
Yes, all courses include one exam attempt to earn your certification. The exam tests your understanding of the course material and hands-on skills developed during the labs. Please note: the exam must be taken or attempted within 90 days from the course purchase date.
What happens if I don't pass the exam on my first attempt?
If you do not pass on your first attempt, you can request an exam reattempt for $99. To schedule a reattempt, please contact training@redfoxsec.com. We recommend reviewing the course materials and practicing in the labs before reattempting the exam.
Will I receive a certificate after completing the course?
Yes! Upon successfully passing the exam, you will receive an industry-recognized certification from Redfox Cybersecurity Academy. Each course has its own specific certification (e.g., CWAPT, CJWPT, CJEH, CWEP, CAAPT) that validates your expertise in that domain. 
Do I need any prior experience to enroll in a course?
Prerequisites vary by course. Some courses are designed for beginners and require no prior experience, while advanced courses may assume basic knowledge of cybersecurity concepts or specific technologies. Please check the course description for specific prerequisites. If you're unsure, feel free to contact us at training@redfoxsec.com for guidance on which course is right for you. 
Are hands-on labs included in all courses?
Absolutely! Every course at Redfox Cybersecurity Academy includes practical, hands-on labs designed to reinforce theoretical concepts and prepare you for real-world scenarios. These labs are accessible for 30 days from enrollment and provide a safe, controlled environment for practicing your skills. 
How long does it take to complete a course?
All courses are self-paced, so the completion time depends on your schedule and commitment. On average, students complete courses in 4-6 weeks when dedicating a few hours per week. However, with lifetime access to course materials, you can take as much time as you need to thoroughly understand the content. 
Can I get support if I have questions during the course?
Yes, we provide dedicated support for all our learners. If you have questions about course content, lab access, certification, or any other concerns, you can reach out to our team at training@redfoxsec.com. We're committed to helping you succeed throughout your learning journey. 
What makes Redfox Cybersecurity Academy courses unique?
Our courses are designed by industry professionals with real-world experience in cybersecurity. We focus on practical, hands-on learning with comprehensive lab environments that simulate actual attack scenarios. Combined with lifetime course access, industry-recognized certifications, and dedicated support, Redfox Cybersecurity Academy provides a complete learning experience to help you build a successful career in cybersecurity. 
Is this an AWS certification course?
This AWS Pentesting Course awards the Certified AWS Penetration Tester (CAPT) - a hands-on AWS certification that validates offensive cloud security skills. Unlike standard AWS training and certification programmes focused on architecture, the CAPT is earned by exploiting live AWS environments under real attack conditions. 
How is this different from standard AWS certification training?
Most AWS certification training covers cloud administration, solutions architecture, and services management. This course focuses exclusively on offensive security - teaching you how attackers think, how misconfigurations are exploited, and how to conduct real-world AWS penetration tests. It's the best AWS course for security professionals looking to specialize in cloud offensive operations. 
What AWS course details should I know before enrolling?
This is a 25-hour, self-paced AWS full course with 70% hands-on labs and 30% theory. It includes 30 days of live lab access, lifetime course access, one CAPT exam attempt, and a private Discord community. You'll need basic AWS, Linux, and security knowledge before enrolling. 

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