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Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux
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Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

by Karl Gilbert Gupta, Benjamin Caudill
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
508 pages
11h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using the boto3 library for reconnaissance

Boto3 is the AWS software development kit (SDK) for Python and can be found here: https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/index.html. It provides an interface to the AWS APIs, allowing us to interact with them programmatically, meaning that we can automate and control what we are trying to do in AWS. It is managed by AWS, so it is constantly updated with the latest features and offerings from AWS. It is also used on the backend of the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), so it makes more sense for us to interact with this library than to try and run AWS CLI commands from within our code.

Because we are going to be using Python for our scripts, boto3 is the perfect option to allow us ...

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