Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

aws <command>

The aws command is a little different than the other Pacu commands. This is essentially a command that directly integrates the AWS CLI into Pacu, so you can run AWS CLI commands without needing to exit out of Pacu. The way it works is if Pacu detects a command that is run that starts with aws as the first word, it will drop the entire command to the bash shell on the host. This means you can treat any aws command within Pacu as if it were a bash command, because it is. This allows you to pipe or redirect the output of your AWS CLI command to wherever you need it on the system.

Something extremely important to note is that Pacu and the AWS CLI use two separate methods of credential storage. Pacu handles its credentials independently, ...