AWS Penetration Testing

AWS Penetration Testing is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by zebbern in claude-code-guide.

4.6K stars459 forkson zebbern/claude-code-guideAdded 2026/08/16Repository updated 2026/08/15

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Install AWS Penetration Testing

Copy AWS Penetration Testing into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide/tree/main/skills/aws-penetration-testing ~/.claude/skills/aws-penetration-testing

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/aws-penetration-testing/SKILL.md in zebbern/claude-code-guide
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/aws-penetration-testing
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What AWS Penetration Testing does

AWS Penetration Testing guides security assessment of Amazon Web Services environments, including IAM enumeration, privilege escalation, SSRF to metadata, S3 bucket exploitation, and Lambda attacks. Use it when asked to pentest AWS or test cloud infrastructure security.

AWS Penetration Testing is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. AWS Penetration Testing comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-agent, ai-agent-tools, anthropic-claude and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

AWS Penetration Testing

Purpose

Provide comprehensive techniques for penetration testing AWS cloud environments. Covers IAM enumeration, privilege escalation, SSRF to metadata endpoint, S3 bucket exploitation, Lambda code extraction, and persistence techniques for red team operations.

Inputs/Prerequisites

AWS CLI configured with credentials
Valid AWS credentials (even low-privilege)
Understanding of AWS IAM model
Python 3, boto3 library
Tools: Pacu, Prowler, ScoutSuite, SkyArk

Outputs/Deliverables

IAM privilege escalation paths
Extracted credentials and secrets
Compromised EC2/Lambda/S3 resources
Persistence mechanisms
Security audit findings

Essential Tools

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about AWS Penetration Testing

What else does zebbern publish alongside AWS Penetration Testing?
AWS Penetration Testing is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from zebbern/claude-code-guide, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Fuzzing for Bug Bounty, API Shape Explorer and Academic Paper Reviewer. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way AWS Penetration Testing does, and is maintained by zebbern in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the zebbern/claude-code-guide page.
How does AWS Penetration Testing compare to other Quality skills?
AWS Penetration Testing ranks #315 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of AWS Penetration Testing against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.