AWS Cloud Red Team Specialist
Course Description
AWS Cloud Red Team Specialist is an advanced, hands-on training program designed for security professionals who want to master offensive security techniques in Amazon Web Services environments. This course teaches you how to think like an attacker in the cloud—identifying weaknesses, exploiting misconfigurations, and simulating real-world adversarial behavior to help organizations strengthen their AWS security posture.
You’ll learn cloud-specific reconnaissance techniques, privilege escalation vectors, exploitation paths, lateral movement strategies, and post-exploitation methods tailored for AWS services. The course also explores IAM abuse patterns, metadata service attacks, misconfigured S3 buckets, vulnerable Lambda and API Gateway setups, shared responsibility considerations, and how attackers bypass cloud-native defenses.
With guided labs, red-team scenarios, and tool demonstrations, this course equips you with the practical experience needed to conduct authorized cloud penetration tests, threat simulations, and adversary emulation assessments in AWS.
What You’ll Learn
Cloud Offensive Security Foundations
Understanding the attacker mindset in cloud-native environments
Mapping traditional red-team techniques to AWS architectures
Identifying common AWS misconfigurations and exploitation paths
Reconnaissance & Enumeration
Enumerating IAM roles, permissions, policies, and trust relationships
Discovering exposed services, public assets, and vulnerable endpoints
Using AWS CLI, APIs, and red-team tools for initial discovery
Privilege Escalation & Access Expansion
Exploiting IAM privilege escalation techniques
Abusing metadata service (IMDS) for credential harvesting
Lateral movement across services and accounts
Service-Specific Exploitation Techniques
S3 misconfigurations, object exposure, and bucket takeover methods
Lambda, API Gateway, and serverless attack techniques
EC2 exploitation opportunities, including role assumption and instance abuse
Exploiting weak network configurations, security groups, and NACLs
Post-Exploitation & Persistence
Backdooring roles, policies, and automation workflows
Establishing persistent access in cloud environments
Techniques for evading detection in AWS logging and monitoring systems
Defensive Awareness
Understanding how Blue Teams detect and respond to attacks
Bypassing GuardDuty, CloudTrail, and Config alerts
Recommendations for securing AWS environments based on red-team findings
Who This Course Is For
Red team operators and penetration testers
Cloud security engineers
Security analysts performing threat simulations
DevSecOps professionals and architects responsible for cloud hardening
Anyone wanting deep hands-on expertise in AWS offensive security