Includes none of the Kali packages
Perhaps it was obvious to others, but not to me, that this image has none of the pen test, exploit, vulnerability scan, etc packages that you would expect to find as part of Kali. That would be OK if it were a simple matter to load those packages. But it is not. This ami isn't up to the task. After hours of searching, I discovered that the /etc/apt/sources.list is out of date and needs to be updated. I found the solution, but not from Offensive Security. Their support appears to be minimal at best. I'm impressed with Kali (and Amazon AWS EC2), but not Offensive Security.
Follow the instructions here to get it working:
http://hackaholic.info/Kali-update-and-upgrade-error-fixed/
Then install one of the meta packages found here:
https://www.kali.org/news/kali-linux-meta packages/
Be sure to follow the Amazon pen testing guidelines found here:
http://AWS.amazon.com/security/penetration-testing/
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