Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to create an AWS account that will allow us to set up an environment for us to create a host and pentest it later throughout the book. It is essential that we understand how to make labs within AWS, mainly due to it being the sole way we will be performing testing in this book, and how you would in a real-life situation. We learned what an EC2 instance is and how to set up an instance with various operating systems, helping us understand the importance of the various operating systems that we would see in a real-world pentesting situation. We learned about setting up vulnerable services within our host and what vulnerabilities entail regarding pentesting and AWS security. Lastly, we learned how to quickly set up the AWS CLI for us to interact with our AWS resources.

In the next chapter, we will start looking more at Kali Linux, some of its history, and how we will be using it throughout this book, and how it pertains to pentesting.