Frequently used AWS SaaS features
AWS features, applications, and services fall into a lot of different categories. Some services are offered free of charge or with limited free trials. Most services, especially the ones that businesses are most likely to use, are provided for fees that vary depending on the service and how much a business needs to use it. For example, a cloud application that needs a small amount of bandwidth and serves a few hundred users per month will generally be a lot less expensive than a cloud application that needs a large amount of bandwidth and serves tens of thousands of users per month.
Of course, managing AWS service fees is your organization’s responsibility, not yours. So, I’ll explain what a pentester needs to understand: the AWS services that businesses frequently use and why they use them.
I’ll start with some SaaS features and applications. These applications use AWS’s infrastructure, platform, and its own software...
