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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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update_regions

The update_regions command generally does not need to be run by a regular Pacu user, but it is important to understand what it does for when you think you might need to use it.

This command runs a bash script that will do the following:

  1. Use python3 -m pip install --upgrade botocore to update your botocore Python3 library to the latest available version.
  2. Use python3 -m pip show botocore to locate the botocore installation folder.
  1. Then, it will read the endpoints.json file that is stored in the botocore folder to parse out what services are available and what regions are supported for those services.
  2. Then, it will save that parsed data to the ./modules/service_regions.json file in the Pacu folder.

Pacu uses this as its guide ...

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