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title: "AWS Red Team Learning Path - Cybr"
description: "AWS Red Team learning path with courses, Hands-On Labs, and more. Learn how to ethically attack AWS environments and find vulnerabilities."
url: https://cybr.com/learning-path/aws-red-team-learning-path/
---

# AWS Red Team Learning Path

- AWS
- Red Team

8 courses Hands-on Labs

## Path Overview

Develop practical AWS cloud red teaming skills with our learning path. From security fundamentals to advanced exploitation techniques, our hands-on training covers vulnerability identification, enumeration, pentesting, privilege escalation, and how to masquerade your steps in cloud environments, critical capabilities for protecting modern infrastructure.

## What You’ll Learn

- AWS Security Architecture Fundamentals
- AWS Enumeration Techniques
- AWS Pentesting Methodologies
- IAM Privilege Escalation Methods
- How blue team detection works
- Red Team Tools & Automation

## Prerequisites

- Basic familiarity with AWS and core services (S3, VPC, EC2, etc…)
- Basic security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, etc…)

If you have no prior AWS or cloud experience, we recommend learning the basics first. A great starting point is the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification.

## Content

8 items

1. ### Introduction to AWS Security

   Course Hands-On Labs

   Learn how to secure your cloud infrastructure with one of our best-selling courses: Introduction to AWS Security. Designed for AWS security beginners (but not complete beginners to AWS), this training course provides you with the essential knowledge and skills to protect your AWS environments and resources from all sorts of...

   6 hours Popular

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   [Introduction to AWS Security](https://cybr.com/courses/introduction-to-aws-security/)

2. ### Beginner's Guide to AWS CloudTrail for Security

   Course

   Get started with AWS CloudTrail: one of the most important security services that AWS offers. While the CloudTrail service is enabled by default when you create an AWS account, it's enabled with limited functionality that can leave you blind and can hinder your ability to investigate security incidents. For example,...

   1.5 hours Popular

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   [Beginner's Guide to AWS CloudTrail for Security](https://cybr.com/courses/beginners-guide-to-aws-cloudtrail-for-security/)

3. ### Practical Guide to AWS IAM Roles

   Course

   Learn how to use IAM Roles like the pros. This course answers questions like: What are IAM roles and how are they different from users? When should you use roles, and how? What are differences between trust policies, managed policies, and inline policies? What's an effective way to assume roles?...

   1.5 hours

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   [Practical Guide to AWS IAM Roles](https://cybr.com/courses/practical-guide-to-aws-iam-roles/)

4. ### Introduction to AWS Enumeration

   Course Hands-On Labs

   Learn the basics of AWS enumeration in this Hands-On Labs course. Enumeration is the process of identifying and cataloguing AWS resources and services in an environment. The purpose is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the AWS environment, which is a critical step in assessing its security posture. Enumeration is...

   1.5 hours Popular

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   [Introduction to AWS Enumeration](https://cybr.com/courses/introduction-to-aws-enumeration/)

5. ### Pentesting AWS Environments with Pacu, CloudGoat, and ChatGPT

   Course Hands-On Labs

   Learn hands-on how to exploit AWS cloud misconfigurations and build practical skills with step-by-step walkthroughs, labs, and CTFs. This course uses and teaches 4 primary tools: CloudGoat Pacu ChatGPT AWS CLI CloudGoat enables you to deploy vulnerable-by-design AWS scenarios in your own environments, although we will be providing a couple...

   1.5 hours

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   [Pentesting AWS Environments with Pacu, CloudGoat, and ChatGPT](https://cybr.com/courses/pentesting-aws-environments-with-pacu-cloudgoat-and-chatgpt/)

6. ### AWS IAM Privilege Escalation Labs

   Course Hands-On Labs

   Learn first-hand how attackers exploit IAM misconfigurations in AWS with tactics pulled from real case studies. This course is entirely made up of 🧪 Hands-On Labs with different scenarios that will teach you how to exploit some of the most dangerous IAM privilege escalation weaknesses. The final section is made...

   5 hours Popular

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   [AWS IAM Privilege Escalation Labs](https://cybr.com/courses/iam-privilege-escalation-labs/)

7. ### AWS Lambda Security Labs

   Course Hands-On Labs

   Learn first-hand how attackers exploit AWS Lambda functions with real-world attack vectors and techniques. This course is entirely made up of 🧪 Hands-On Labs featuring vulnerable Lambda environments that will teach you how to identify and exploit serverless security weaknesses. Each lab deploys real AWS environments where you'll practice Lambda...

   6 hours

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   [AWS Lambda Security Labs](https://cybr.com/courses/aws-lambda-security-labs/)

8. ### Incident Response with CloudTrail and Athena

   Course

   Learn how to effectively respond to incidents in your AWS accounts regardless of whether you are running a single or multi-account setup using CloudTrail Lake and Athena, two native AWS services. This Incident Response (IR) course simulates attacks against your AWS environments that have been seen in the real-world....

   3 hours

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   [Incident Response with CloudTrail and Athena](https://cybr.com/courses/incident-response-with-cloudtrail-and-athena/)

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