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. [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 - pdf](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
8. [Securing DevOps](https://www.manning.com/books/securing-devops) - A book which has real-world examples for Cloud Security. Must read book for any Cloud Security Professionals.
11. [Practical Guide to Security in the AWS Cloud by SANS and sponsored by AWS Marketplace - pdf](https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZM-766/images/Cloud%20Security%20Practical%20Guide%20to%20Security%20in%20the%20AWS%20Cloud.pdf)
12. [CSA Guide to Cloud Computing by Sungress](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/csa-guide-to/9780124201255/)
13. [Practical Cloud Security by O'reilly](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/practical-cloud-security/9781492037507/)
7. [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.
8. [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.
9. [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/)
10. [A short blog on hacking AWS](https://www.devopsgroup.com/blog/hacking-aws-blog/) - Examples are based on cloudgoat.
11. [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.
12. [51 Tips for Security AWS(pdf)](https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/assets/skyhigh/white-papers/wp-definitive-guide-to-aws-ebook.pdf) - McAfee
13. [The role of API gateways in API security](https://dzone.com/articles/the-role-of-api-gateways-in-api-security)
14. [Finding SSRF via HTML Injection inside a PDF file on AWS EC2](https://blog.appsecco.com/finding-ssrf-via-html-injection-inside-a-pdf-file-on-aws-ec2-214cc5ec5d90)
15. [Getting shell and data access in AWS by chaining vulnerabilities](https://blog.appsecco.com/getting-shell-and-data-access-in-aws-by-chaining-vulnerabilities-7630fa57c7ed)
17. [Detailed blog on ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access by Netflix](https://netflixtechblog.com/consoleme-a-central-control-plane-for-aws-permissions-and-access-fd09afdd60a8)
18. [Strengthen the security of sensitive data stored in Amazon S3 by using additional AWS services](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/strengthen-the-security-of-sensitive-data-stored-in-amazon-s3-by-using-additional-aws-services/)
19. [Use IMDSv2 instead: Defense in depth](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/defense-in-depth-open-firewalls-reverse-proxies-ssrf-vulnerabilities-ec2-instance-metadata-service/
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20. [Managing permissions with grants in AWS Key Management Service](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/managing-permissions-with-grants-in-aws-key-management-service/)
21. [AWS IAM Exploitation](https://sra.io/blog/aws-iam-exploitation/)
22. [S3 Pentest by Rhino Security Labs](https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/penetration-testing/penetration-testing-aws-storage/)
23. [How an Attacker Could Use Instance Metadata to Breach Your App in AWS](https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/enterprise/cloud-security/how-an-attacker-could-use-instance-metadata-to-breach-your-app-in-aws/)
26. [How I Discovered Thousands of Open Databases on AWS](https://infosecwriteups.com/how-i-discovered-thousands-of-open-databases-on-aws-764729aa7f32)
27. [CVE-2022-25165: Privilege Escalation to SYSTEM in AWS VPN Client](https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/cve-2022-25165-aws-vpn-client/)
28. [Downloading and Exploring AWS EBS Snapshots](https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/exploring-aws-ebs-snapshots/)
29. [Weaponizing AWS ECS Task Definitions to Steal Credentials From Running Containers](https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/weaponizing-ecs-task-definitions-steal-credentials-running-containers/)
30. [Good Read on AWS IAM Privilege Escalation – Methods and Mitigation](https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/aws-privilege-escalation-methods-mitigation/)
31. [One more on IAM Privilege Escalation](https://payatu.com/blog/mayank.arora/iam_privilege_escalation_attack)
32. *[A very good repo for learning IAM based vulnerabilities](https://github.com/BishopFox/iam-vulnerable)
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
11. [Breaking and Pwning Apps and Servers in AWS and Azure](https://github.com/appsecco/breaking-and-pwning-apps-and-servers-aws-azure-training) - Previously an instructor led training now released as free and open source courseware for Cloud Pentesters
* 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
* 1.10 **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.
* 1.13 **AWS Detective:** Amazon Detective automatically collects log data from your AWS resources and uses machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to build a linked set of data that enables you to easily conduct faster and more efficient security investigations.
* 1.14 **AWS Conformance Packs:** A conformance pack is a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be easily deployed as a single entity in an account and a Region or across an organization in AWS Organizations. [conformance packs on github](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-config-rules/tree/master/aws-config-conformance-packs)
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. [truffleHog](https://github.com/dxa4481/truffleHog) - Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets, digging deep into commit history
5. [gitleaks](https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks) - Audit git repos for secrets
6. [AWS Security Benchmark](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-security-benchmark) - Open source demos, concept and guidance related to the AWS CIS Foundation framework.
16. [AWS Firewall Factory](https://github.com/globaldatanet/aws-firewall-factory) - Deploy, update, and stage your WAFs while managing them centrally via FMS.
17. [AWS Pentesting/Red Team Methodology - by hacktricks](https://cloud.hacktricks.xyz/pentesting-cloud/aws-pentesting) - A Collection for AWS environment penetration testing methodology.
18. [AWS Pentesting/Red Team Methodology - by hackingthe.cloud](https://hackingthe.cloud/aws/general-knowledge/aws_organizations_defaults/) - A collection of attacks/tactics/techniques that can use by offensive security professionals during cloud exploitation.
6. [OWASP WrongSecrets](https://github.com/commjoen/wrongsecrets) - OWASP WrongSecrets is a vulnerable app which shows you how to not store secrets. It covers code, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS cloud bad practices.
7. [AWS S3 CTF Challenges with solutions](https://n0j.github.io/2017/10/02/aws-s3-ctf.html)
8. [AWS CTF with practical scenario](https://r00tz-ctf.awssecworkshops.com/)
9. [Breaking and Pwning Apps and Servers on AWS and Azure by AppSecCo](https://github.com/appsecco/breaking-and-pwning-apps-and-servers-aws-azure-training) - The training covers a multitude of scenarios taken from our vulnerability assessment, penetration testing and OSINT engagements which take the student through the journey of discovery, identification and exploitation of security weaknesses, misconfigurations and poor programming practices that can lead to complete compromise of the cloud infrastructure.
10. [AWS Workshop official](https://awsworkshop.io/) - This is not exactly security part, but would be helpful to understand AWS with this workshop examples.
11. [AWS Security Workshops](https://awssecworkshops.com/) by AWS
12. [ThreatModel for Amazon S3](https://github.com/trustoncloud/threatmodel-for-aws-s3) - Library of all the attack scenarios on Amazon S3 and how to mitigate them, following a risk-based approach
1. [Container Networking Security Issue ([CVE-2020-8558])](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8558) (This issue may allow containers running on the same host, or adjacent hosts (hosts running in the same LAN or layer 2 domain), to reach TCP and UDP services bound to localhost (127.0.0.1))
3. [Unencrypted md5 plaintext hash in metadata in AWS S3 Crypto SDK for golang](https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-76wf-9vgp-pj7w)
4. [CBC padding oracle issue in AWS S3 Crypto SDK for golang](https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-f5pg-7wfw-84q9) : [CVE-2020-8911](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8911)
5. [In-band key negotiation issue in AWS S3 Crypto SDK for golang](https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-7f33-f4f5-xwgw) : [CVE-2020-8912](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8912)
6. [CVE-2018-15869](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15869): An Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer who does not specify the --owners flag when describing images via AWS CLI, and therefore not properly validating source software per AWS recommended security best practices, may unintentionally load an undesired and potentially malicious Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the uncurated public community AMI catalog.
7. [How a Security Researcher found 1000s of open databases on AWS](https://infosecwriteups.com/how-i-discovered-thousands-of-open-databases-on-aws-764729aa7f32)
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)
7. [Online Fashion App 21 buttons Exposes Financial Records of Top European Influencers due to S3 misconfiguration](https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/report-21-buttons-breach/)
10. [Utah COVID-19 testing service exposes 50,000 patients’ photo IDs, personal info on the web](https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/utah-covid-test-center-leak/)
11. [US municipalities suffer data breach due to misconfigured Amazon S3 buckets](https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/95704-us-municipalities-suffer-data-breach-due-to-misconfigured-amazon-s3-buckets)
