AWS Cloud-Native Comprehensive Penetration Testing by Futuralis

Futuralis AWS Cloud-Native Comprehensive Penetration Testing provides a comprehensive security assessment of AWS environments across cloud infrastructure, Amazon EKS and container workloads, and serverless applications.

The engagement combines manual penetration-testing techniques, security tooling, and controlled exploitation to identify and validate security weaknesses that could lead to unauthorized access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, sensitive-data exposure, or compromise of critical AWS resources.

Testing is performed within an agreed scope and Rules of Engagement and focuses on demonstrating realistic attack paths, assessing business impact, and providing actionable remediation guidance.

AWS Cloud Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Evaluate AWS accounts, identities, networks, compute, storage, and cloud security controls for exploitable weaknesses and insecure configurations.

Testing may include:

• AWS IAM users, roles, policies, permissions, and privilege-escalation paths
• Cross-account access and trust relationships
• Amazon VPC, security groups, network exposure, and reachable services
• Amazon EC2 workloads and instance metadata exposure
• Amazon S3 permissions, public access, and sensitive-data exposure
• AWS Secrets Manager and credential exposure
• AWS KMS encryption and key-access controls
• Insecure cloud configurations and service trust relationships
• AWS CloudTrail, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Config, and AWS Security Hub controls
• Lateral movement and cross-service attack paths
• Amazon EKS and Container Penetration Testing

Assess Kubernetes clusters, container workloads, registries, nodes, identities, and AWS integrations for vulnerabilities that could enable workload compromise or escalation into the underlying AWS environment.

Testing may include:

• Kubernetes RBAC and authorization controls
• Amazon EKS access configurations
• IAM Roles for Service Accounts and EKS Pod Identity
• Service accounts and workload identities
• Kubernetes secrets and credential exposure
• Container image vulnerabilities and insecure configurations
• Amazon ECR permissions and registry exposure
• Privileged containers and dangerous workload configurations
• Kubernetes network policies and workload isolation
• Node and instance metadata security
• Pod-to-pod lateral movement
• Container escape and container-to-AWS privilege-escalation paths
• Serverless Application Penetration Testing

Evaluate AWS serverless applications, APIs, functions, event-driven workflows, authentication controls, and service integrations for application- and cloud-level vulnerabilities.

Testing may include:

• AWS Lambda functions and execution roles
• Amazon API Gateway and Lambda Function URLs
• AWS AppSync APIs and integrations
• Amazon EventBridge event flows
• AWS Step Functions workflows
• Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS messaging
• Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon S3 data access
• Amazon Cognito authentication and authorization
• Excessive IAM permissions
• Environment variables, credentials, and secrets exposure
• Input validation and injection vulnerabilities
• Event and message manipulation
• Insecure service-to-service trust relationships
• Sensitive-data exposure
• Cross-service privilege escalation
• Cross-Service Attack Path Validation

Futuralis evaluates how individual weaknesses can be chained across AWS services and workload layers to create higher-impact attack paths.

Examples may include:

• Public-facing application compromise leading to AWS credential access
• Container or Kubernetes workload compromise leading to AWS privilege escalation
• Serverless function compromise resulting in unauthorized resource access
• Exposed credentials or secrets enabling lateral movement
• Misconfigured IAM permissions enabling cross-service or cross-account escalation
• Compromised workloads providing access to sensitive data or critical AWS services
• Deliverables

Customers receive:

• Validated vulnerability findings
• Affected AWS resources and components
• Evidence and controlled proof of concept, where appropriate
• Risk and severity ratings
• Technical and business impact analysis
• Root-cause analysis
• Prioritized remediation recommendations
• AWS, Kubernetes, container, and serverless hardening guidance
• Executive summary and detailed technical report
• Findings review with Futuralis security specialists
• Optional remediation validation and retesting

The engagement provides organizations with a consolidated view of exploitable security risk across AWS infrastructure and cloud-native workloads, helping security and engineering teams prioritize remediation based on validated attack paths and potential business impact.