To start from the very beginning, Pacu is an offensive AWS exploitation framework, written by a small group of developers and researchers at Rhino Security Labs. Open source and available on GitHub under the BSD-3 license (https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/pacu), Pacu and its modules are written in Python 3.
The original idea for Pacu was born out of an accumulation of research within Rhino's penetration testing team. It was found that more and more clients are using cloud server providers, such as AWS, and that there were a lot of unexplored areas that seemed ripe for exploitation. As ideas, attack vectors, and scripts piled up within the Rhino team, it became clear that some sort of framework was required to aggregate all of this research and make it easy to work with. Being penetration testers, it was also decided that it should be able to handle projects...