Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

Setting up the tool

To run the tool on our AWS infrastructure, we will have to set up an IAM user with specific permissions to configure the tool:

1. Start by going to IAM | Users.
2. Click on the Add user button, as shown in the following screenshot:

Adding IAM user

3. We will create a new auditor user for this activity. Set Access type to Programmatic Access, and then continue. We don't need access to AWS Management Console, so there's no need to create a password:

Setting user details

4. Next, we are going to set policies to our new IAM user. For ...