AWS & Azure Cloud Penetration Testing
A controlled, authorized attack simulation against your AWS or Azure environment, designed to find exploitable misconfigurations before a real attacker does, with a clear severity-ranked report and fixes.
Cloud penetration testing is a controlled, authorized attack simulation against your AWS or Azure environment. We think like an attacker, testing IAM permissions, exposed storage, network segmentation and application-layer access paths, to find the weaknesses a real adversary would exploit, then hand you a prioritised plan to close them.
What’s included in our penetration testing service
- External attack surface mapping
- IAM privilege escalation testing
- S3 / Blob storage exposure checks
- Network segmentation & lateral-movement review
- Application-layer access-path testing
- Written report with severity-ranked findings
Our penetration testing process
Scoping
We agree the scope, targets and rules of engagement in writing, which accounts, which services, and what is off-limits, so testing is safe and authorized.
Reconnaissance
We map your external attack surface and enumerate the resources, permissions and entry points an attacker would first probe.
Exploitation
We safely attempt real attack paths, privilege escalation, exposed storage, weak segmentation, proving what is genuinely exploitable rather than just theoretically risky.
Reporting
You receive a clear report with findings ranked by severity and exploitability, each with concrete remediation steps and documentation for your compliance records.
Who our penetration testing service is for
Cloud penetration testing is for companies preparing for a compliance audit (CIS, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA), organisations that have recently completed a cloud migration and want assurance, and any business handling sensitive data that needs to know, with evidence, where its real exposure is.
Typical results
Clients get a clear, prioritised picture of their true attack surface: which misconfigurations are genuinely exploitable, ranked by severity, with remediation steps and documentation they can hand straight to auditors or their board. No vague scores, concrete, proven findings.
The difference between a vulnerability scan and a penetration test
These two terms are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing, and the gap between them matters. A vulnerability scan is automated: a tool checks your environment against a database of known issues and produces a long list, most of which are low-priority or not actually exploitable in your specific setup. A penetration test goes further: a skilled engineer takes those findings and asks the question a real attacker would ask, can this actually be exploited, and if so, how far can I get? We run automated scanning as a first pass to map the surface, then apply manual, expert analysis to separate the theoretical from the genuinely dangerous. The result is not a 400-item list that overwhelms your team; it is a short, ranked set of findings that are proven to be exploitable, each with a clear path to remediation. That distinction is the difference between noise and intelligence.
Why cloud penetration testing is different from traditional pen testing
Testing a cloud environment is not the same as testing a traditional network, and treating them the same is a common and costly mistake. In the cloud, the most serious risks usually are not unpatched servers; they are misconfigurations in identity and access management, over-permissive roles, publicly exposed storage, and insecure defaults that were never changed. A cloud-native penetration test focuses on exactly these: it examines your IAM policies for privilege-escalation paths, checks whether a compromised low-level credential could be chained into full account access, and looks for the storage buckets, keys and endpoints that are quietly exposed. We use cloud-specific tooling like Prowler, Pacu and ScoutSuite alongside manual analysis, because the attack surface of AWS and Azure lives in configuration and identity, not just in code and open ports. A generic pen test that ignores this misses the risks most likely to actually cause a breach.
What you receive, and why the report is the real deliverable
The value of a penetration test is not the test itself; it is what you can do with the findings afterwards, and that comes down to the quality of the report. A test that finds real issues but reports them poorly leaves you no better off. Our deliverable is built to be acted on: an executive summary your leadership and auditors can read, a technically detailed section your engineers can work from, every finding ranked by real-world severity rather than a generic score, and concrete, step-by-step remediation guidance for each one. We also include proof, the evidence that a finding is genuinely exploitable, so there is no debate about whether something matters. And we offer a re-test after you have remediated, so you can prove to auditors, customers or your board that the gaps are actually closed, not just identified. The report is not paperwork; it is the roadmap that turns a test into a more secure environment.
Frequently asked questions
Is cloud penetration testing legal on my own AWS account?
Yes, testing your own infrastructure is legal and standard practice. AWS and Azure both publish authorized penetration testing policies; we operate strictly within them and provide documentation for your compliance records.
How is this different from a vulnerability scan?
A vulnerability scan lists potential issues automatically; a penetration test proves which of those are actually exploitable by safely attempting real attack paths. Penetration testing gives you prioritised, evidence-based findings rather than a long list of theoretical risks.
Will testing disrupt our production environment?
No. We agree rules of engagement in advance, test safely within authorized boundaries, and avoid anything destructive. Where needed we test against staging or during agreed low-traffic windows.
What do we get at the end?
A written report with every finding ranked by severity and exploitability, concrete remediation steps for each, and documentation suitable for compliance audits (CIS, SOC 2, GDPR).
Ready to secure and scale your AWS or Azure environment?
Start with a free 20-minute AWS or Azure cloud security assessment. We will identify your highest-priority security gaps and DevOps bottlenecks. No pitch, no obligation.
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- Fixed-price quote, approved before we start
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- NDA available on request