Amazon Web Services is the leading cloud platform in the world today hosting services and resources to some of the largest companies and organizations. While Amazon provides the highest levels of security to their customers, security issues and data breaches still can and do occur. One of the best courses of action you can take to ensure your AWS resources and assets is to find security issues before they become incidents and Penetration Testing can help you do just that. This course is for the AWS admin, Security Admin, Penetration Tester, or anyone interested in gaining experience with finding and exploiting security flaws in the AWS environment at an introductory level. We will start by working through some of the relevant basic AWS concepts and skills. Next we will explore useful administrative and security tools specific to AWS. Finally, we will apply our skills and tools against a variety of AWS specific challenges, giving us a 'hands-on' experience with real-world AWS security issues.