AWS Security Assessment & Penetration Testing
Protect what matters with AWS Security Assessment & Penetration Testing
An AWS security assessment is an expert review of your Amazon Web Services accounts — identity and access management (IAM), network design, storage, compute, logging and data protection — to find misconfigurations and attack paths before they lead to a breach. Aesparrow combines configuration review against the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark with hands-on AWS penetration testing, showing how an attacker could move from a single weakness to your crown-jewel data.
Most cloud breaches stem from misconfiguration and over-privileged identities rather than flaws in AWS itself. We review IAM policies and roles, S3 bucket exposure, security groups and VPC design, EC2, Lambda, EKS and RDS configuration, CloudTrail and GuardDuty coverage, KMS usage and multi-account governance — and we test within AWS’s published penetration testing policy.
- Certified senior practitioners
- Audit-ready reporting
- Free re-test included
AWS Security Assessment & Penetration Testing — done right, the first time.
Senior practitioners. Verified findings. Free re-test.
What our AWS security assessment covers
- IAM — over-privileged roles, access keys, MFA, cross-account trust and privilege escalation paths
- S3 & data stores — public exposure, encryption, bucket policies and RDS/DynamoDB settings
- Network — VPC design, security groups, NACLs and internet-exposed services
- Compute — EC2 metadata (IMDSv2), Lambda permissions, EKS/ECS configuration
- Logging & detection — CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub and alerting coverage
- Key management — KMS key policies, rotation and secrets handling
Assessment approach
Read-only configuration review
Automated and manual review against CIS and AWS Well-Architected security pillar.
AWS penetration testing
Authorised testing of exposed services and assumed-breach IAM escalation.
Risk report & roadmap
Prioritised fixes, quick wins and long-term guardrails.
Why choose Aesparrow for AWS security
- 1
Attack-path focus
We show how misconfigurations chain into real privilege escalation and data access.
- 2
CIS-mapped findings
Every issue mapped to the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark and your frameworks.
- 3
IaC-ready fixes
Remediation delivered as policy and Terraform/CloudFormation guidance.
- 4
Multi-account coverage
Organizations, SCPs and landing-zone governance reviewed together.
Get a clear, prioritised view of your AWS risk, mapped to the CIS Benchmark and your compliance frameworks, with fixes your cloud team can apply immediately. Ask us to scope an AWS security assessment for your accounts.
Why AWS Security Assessment & Penetration Testing matters
Independent research on the cost and causes of breaches — the risks this service helps you reduce.
US$4.44M
global average cost of a data breach in 2025.
241 days
mean time to identify and contain a breach in 2025.
20%
of breaches began with exploitation of a vulnerability, up 34% in a year.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Ready to secure your business with AWS Security Assessment & Penetration Testing?
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