1. [Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux by PackT](https://www.packtpub.com/virtualization-and-cloud/hands-aws-penetration-testing-kali-linux)
2. [Mastering AWS Security by PackT](https://www.packtpub.com/in/virtualization-and-cloud/mastering-aws-security)
3. [Security Best Practices on AWS by PackT](https://www.packtpub.com/in/virtualization-and-cloud/aws-security-best-practices-aws)
6. [AWS Lambda Security Best Practices](http://www.aliencoders.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/AWS-Lambda-Security-eBook-1.pdf) - It's published by Puresec and it has a good overview on AWS Lambda Security Best Practices which we should follow
AWS has awesome lists of whitepapers related to AWS Security. We are adding few important one here. You can anytime check more for updated or new security whitepapers [here](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-learning/?whitepapers-main.sort-by=item.additionalFields.sortDate&whitepapers-main.sort-order=desc)
1. [AWS Overview](https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/aws-overview.pdf) - One of the important whitepaper to understand an overview of AWS
2. [AWS Security Best Practices](http://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Security/AWS_Security_Best_Practices.pdf)
5. [AWS Security primer](https://cloudonaut.io/aws-security-primer/) - Nice overview and quick run through AWS Security resources.
6. [How a whitehat hacker earned $1500 in 15 minutes due to AWS S3 misconfiguration](https://medium.com/@protector47/how-i-earned-1-500-in-just-15-mins-due-to-amazon-s3-bucket-misconfiguration-953b28242f95) - It was fun going through the blog. You can learn from this article too.
7. [A deep dive into AWS S3 access control](https://labs.detectify.com/2017/07/13/a-deep-dive-into-aws-s3-access-controls-taking-full-control-over-your-assets/) - It will give a very good grip on how S3 buckets can be exploited. Lengthy but worth to go through.
8. [How Federico hacked a whole EC2 network during a penetration test](https://www.secsignal.org/en/news/how-i-hacked-a-whole-ec2-network-during-a-penetration-test/)
9. [A short blog on hacking AWS](https://www.devopsgroup.com/blog/hacking-aws-blog/) - Examples are based on cloudgoat.
10. [S3 security is flawed by design](https://www.upguard.com/blog/s3-security-is-flawed-by-design) - This article will show you why you need to be extra careful when using AWS S3.
7. [AWS for Architects: Advanced Security](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/aws-for-architects-advanced-security/) - Linkedin Learn by Lynn Langit
8. [Practical Event Driven Security with AWS](https://acloud.guru/learn/practical-event-driven-security-with-aws) - Acloud.guru
9. [Learning Path for AWS Security](https://learn.acloud.guru/learning-path/aws-security) - Nicely designed the learning path who wants to be an AWS Security Experts from Acloud.guru
10. [Cloud Hacking course](https://www.notsosecure.com/hacking-training/cloud-hacking/) - From NotSoSercure
* 1.7 **AWS Shield:** AWS Shield is a managed DDoS protection service. AWS Shield can protect EC2, Load balancers, CloudFront, Global Accelerator, and Route 53 resources
* 1.8 **AWS Trusted Advisor:** AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides you real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices
* 1.9 **AWS Config:** AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources
* 1.10 **Security Hub:** AWS Security Hub gives you a comprehensive view of your high-priority security alerts and security posture across your AWS accounts
* 1.11 **AWS WAF:** AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources
* 1.12 **AWS Macie:** Macie is all about protecting data. It is a machine learning service that watches data access trends and finds anomalies to spot data leaks and unauthorized data access.
2. [Arsenal of AWS Security Tools](https://github.com/toniblyx/my-arsenal-of-aws-security-tools) - Collection of all security category tools and products
3. [AWS Security Automation](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-security-automation) - Collection of scripts and resources for DevSecOps and Automated Incident Response Security
4. [Security Monkey](https://github.com/Netflix/security_monkey) - Monitors AWS, GCP, OpenStack, and GitHub orgs for assets and their changes over time.
5. [truffleHog](https://github.com/dxa4481/truffleHog) - Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets, digging deep into commit history
6. [gitleaks](https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks) - Audit git repos for secrets
7. [AWS Security Benchmark](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-security-benchmark) - Open source demos, concept and guidance related to the AWS CIS Foundation framework.
2. [200 million voters data leak](https://www.skyhighnetworks.com/cloud-security-blog/latest-voter-data-leak-is-a-lesson-in-aws-security/) - A lesson in AWS Security
3. [Imperva blames data breach on Stolen AWS API keys](https://www.zdnet.com/article/imperva-blames-data-breach-on-stolen-aws-api-key/)
4. [Tesla's Amazon cloud account was hacked and used to mine cryptocurrency](https://www.businessinsider.in/finance/teslas-amazon-cloud-account-was-hacked-and-used-to-mine-cryptocurrency/articleshow/63003345.cms)
6. [Lion Air the Latest to Get Tripped Up by Misconfigured AWS S3](https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/lion-air-the-latest-to-get-tripped-up-by-misconfigured-aws-s3-/d/d-id/1335864)
