Pacu offers a wide range of capabilities and the ability to extend upon existing functionality. It was the first modular attack tool created for penetration testing AWS environments, and due to its backing should be in development for a long time to come. It is a great asset to take advantage of when attacking AWS environments, but it is not a catch-all, so it is important to learn the fundamentals of attacking AWS as well, rather than relying on someone else to automate everything for you.
Pacu is still in active development, so features may change, be added, or be removed since the time of writing, so it is important to take that into account when running into issues. The Pacu developers are available to respond to issues and pull requests that are opened in GitHub, so that is likely to be the best resource for support with running Pacu.
In this chapter, we covered the...
