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Cloud Penetration Testing (AWS & Azure)
Cloud-native penetration testing for AWS and Azure environments — finding IAM misconfigurations, exposed storage, and vulnerable services before attackers do, with remediation guidance your engineers can act on.
Why Cloud Pentesting Matters Even With Provider Security
AWS and Microsoft secure the underlying infrastructure — the data centers, hardware, and hypervisors. Everything you build on top is yours: identities, permissions, network rules, storage settings, application code, and data.
That's where most cloud incidents happen. A cloud penetration test evaluates your side of the shared responsibility model, the way an attacker would.
Your side of the model
- Identity and access management
- Network and security group configuration
- Storage and database permissions
- Encryption and key management choices
- Application and API security
- Logging and detection coverage
What Attackers Look for in the Cloud
Most cloud breaches don't start with a zero-day. They start with a configuration choice.
IAM Misconfiguration
Overly permissive roles, wildcard policies, and privilege escalation paths that turn one compromised credential into full account access.
Storage Exposure
Publicly readable buckets and storage accounts, leaked access keys, and shared links that outlive their purpose.
Serverless Attack Surface
Functions with excessive permissions, injectable event inputs, and secrets stored in environment variables.
Exposed Services
Management ports, databases, and admin consoles reachable from the internet through permissive security rules.
Metadata and Credential Theft
SSRF paths to instance metadata services that hand attackers temporary cloud credentials.
Cross-Account Trust
Trust relationships between accounts and subscriptions that let an attacker move laterally.
AWS and Azure Testing Scope
The attack surface differs by platform, so the test plan does too.
AWS Penetration Testing
- IAM users, roles, policies, and privilege escalation paths
- S3 bucket policies and object exposure
- EC2, security groups, and instance metadata (IMDS)
- Lambda and API Gateway
- RDS and other managed data services
- Cross-account trust and Organizations boundaries
Azure Penetration Testing
- Entra ID identities, role assignments, and conditional access
- Storage account access and shared access signatures
- Virtual machines, NSGs, and managed identities
- Azure Functions and App Service
- Key Vault access policies
- Subscription and management group boundaries
Who It's For
- SaaS and cloud-native companies
- Organizations migrating workloads to AWS or Azure
- Teams preparing for SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or HIPAA audits
- Companies answering customer cloud security reviews
Cloud Penetration Testing FAQs
Do I need permission from AWS to pentest?
AWS customers can test a defined list of AWS services without prior approval, provided testing follows AWS's customer penetration testing policy. Certain activities — such as denial-of-service testing — are prohibited or require a separate request. We confirm the approved scope before testing begins.
Do I need permission from Microsoft to test Azure?
No prior approval is required, but testing must follow Microsoft's Cloud Penetration Testing Rules of Engagement. Our engagements are planned within those rules.
How is a cloud pentest different from a traditional network pentest?
A network pentest focuses on hosts, services, and network paths. A cloud pentest adds the control plane: identities, roles, policies, storage permissions, managed services, and the configuration choices that determine what an attacker can reach once they have any foothold.
Will testing disrupt production?
Testing is planned with defined windows, rules of engagement, and non-destructive techniques. We coordinate with your team on sensitive workloads and can test in staging where it mirrors production.
Test Your Cloud Before Someone Else Does
Tell us which accounts, subscriptions, and workloads matter most. We'll scope a cloud penetration test within AWS and Microsoft rules of engagement and deliver findings your engineering team can fix quickly.
Get Started with Privaxi Testing Services
Don’t wait for an attack to reveal the weaknesses in your defenses. Take a proactive approach by scheduling a comprehensive assessment ofyour systems. Our Testing and Assessment Services will help you understand your vulnerabilities and fortify your defenses.
