Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Overprivileged roles, weak policies, and misconfigured trust relationships that open a path to privilege escalation.
// Expert AWS Security Assessment
AWS Security Assessment & Penetration Testing Services In USA
Find the AWS Risks Scanners Miss
Protect your AWS environment with comprehensive security assessment services designed to identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, access control weaknesses, and security risks. Pluto Security evaluates your AWS infrastructure, IAM, network configurations, workloads, data, and security controls to provide clear findings and actionable recommendations for strengthening your cloud security posture.
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- Zero False Positives
Every finding is validated by hand before it reaches your report, so your team acts on real risk, not scanner noise.
- Certified Operators
OSCP, CISSP, and GIAC-certified testers run every AWS engagement from start to finish.
- Framework Aligned
All testing maps to OWASP, NIST, PTES, and MITRE ATT&CK, so your report holds up with auditors.
- Free Retest Included
Once you fix the issues, we retest every affected area at no extra cost to confirm the risk is closed.
About Our AWS Security
A Manual AWS Cloud Security Assessment, Not a Scan Report
Wondering how to assess AWS webhosting security beyond a checklist? Most automated scanners flag what's already documented and miss the rest. An effective AWS security risk assessment requires someone who understands how attackers actually chain together small missteps, an overly permissive IAM policy here, a misconfigured security group there, into full account compromise. Pluto Security's certified operators manually test your AWS environment from an attacker's perspective, validating every finding by hand before it reaches your report. No scanner noise, no false positives, just clear evidence of what's exploitable and a practical path to fix it.
Proven exploitable findings only
Zero scanner noise guaranteed
Compliance mapped every time
Free retest always included
// Scope
Full Scope Coverage Across Your AWS Environment
S3 and Storage
Publicly exposed buckets, unencrypted data, and broken access controls that put sensitive data at risk.
EC2 and Compute
Exposed instances, insecure security groups, and weak configurations across your compute layer.
Lambda and Serverless
Insecure permissions, injection flaws, and data exposure risks across your event-driven workloads.
Networking Controls
Misconfigured VPCs, security groups, and network segmentation gaps that expose internal resources.
Secrets and Credentials
Hardcoded keys, exposed environment variables, and improperly stored credentials that give attackers a direct path in.
// Methodology
How an AWS Security Assessment Engagement Works
- 01
Scoping
We map your AWS environment and define the AWS security event risk assessment criteria that matter most to your business, whether that's a single account or your full multi-account footprint.
- 02
Testing
Certified operators manually test your IAM, S3, EC2, Lambda, and network configurations using attacker-driven methodology, with automation supporting coverage, never replacing the work.
- 03
Reporting
You get a clear, audit-ready report that ranks findings by real business risk, backed by proof of exploitation.
- 04
Remediation Support
We walk your team through fixes step by step, so findings turn into resolved issues.
- 05
Free Retest
Once fixes are in place, we retest the affected systems at no extra cost to confirm the risk is closed.
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// What we deliver
Audit Ready Reports Built for AWS Teams
Every engagement ends with a report built for your engineers and your leadership alike, detailed enough to guide remediation and clear enough to hand to an auditor.
- Detailed AWS Security Findings
Clear documentation of vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, exposed resources, and security control weaknesses.
- Risk & Impact Analysis
Assess the potential impact and severity of identified AWS security risks to support effective prioritization.
- Technical Assessment Evidence
Provide supporting evidence and technical context to help validate identified security issues.
- Actionable Remediation Guidance
Deliver practical recommendations to address security gaps and strengthen your AWS environment.
Why Choose Pluto Security?
Manual Testing, Built for AWS Environments
AWS environments change fast, and a one time scan can't keep up with how quickly a misconfigured IAM role turns into a breach. That's why our AWS security assessment is built around certified humans who understand how attackers actually move through your account.
Manual First
Our operators find chained attack paths and privilege escalation routes that automated tools miss entirely.
Certified Operators
Every engagement is run by testers holding OSCP, CISSP, and GIAC credentials.
Zero False Positives
We prove exploitability before anything lands in your report.
Compliance Ready
Deliverables map directly to SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and NIST CSF.
Testing That Mirrors Real Attackers
- We test your AWS environment the way an attacker would, chaining small misconfigurations across IAM, S3, and EC2 into real, business impacting attack paths.
- We validate every finding by hand before it reaches your report, so your team never chases a false positive.
- We map every result to the compliance frameworks your auditors and customers actually ask about.
- We assess your IAM roles and policies for privilege escalation paths that automated tools consistently overlook.
What you get
- AWS Security Findings
- IAM & Access Control Insights
- AWS Infrastructure & Configuration Review
- Actionable Remediation Guidance
Methodologies and Frameworks We Follow
- OWASP
- NIST
- PTES
- MITRE ATT&CK
// Business impact
A Compliant AWS Account Isn't Always a Secure One
Passing an audit tells you your controls exist on paper. It doesn't tell you whether an attacker can chain an overprivileged IAM role to an S3 bucket full of customer data. A thorough AWS security assessment closes that gap before it becomes an incident report.
Misconfigurations Are the #1 Breach Vector
Most AWS incidents trace back to a misconfigured IAM role or exposed S3 bucket, not a sophisticated zero day attack.
Scanners Miss What Attackers Find
Automated tools catch known signatures, but they consistently miss chained vulnerabilities and context-dependent risks that real attackers exploit.
IAM Weaknesses Open the Entire Account
A single overprivileged role can give an attacker a path from initial access to full administrative control across your AWS environment.
Compliance Doesn't Equal Security
Passing a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit confirms your controls exist on paper, it doesn't confirm they'd hold up against a real attack.
AWS Environments Change Fast
New resources, updated policies, and infrastructure changes can introduce new risk daily, making point in time testing critical to staying ahead.
Lambda and Serverless Are Under Tested
Event-driven workloads are frequently deployed with excessive permissions that go unnoticed until an attacker finds them first.
Privilege Escalation Is Rarely Obvious
Attackers chain together small IAM misconfigurations to escalate privileges in ways that neither automated tools nor internal reviews typically catch.
The Cost of a Breach Outweighs the Cost of Testing
A single AWS breach can trigger regulatory fines, customer churn, and reputational damage that far exceeds the investment in proactive security testing.
// FAQ
AWS Security Assessment Questions & Answered
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