Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

Using IAM access keys

Now that we have created a user and access keys and understand how IAM policies work, it is time to put them to work to make some AWS API calls:

1. First, let's get the AWS command-line interface (CLI) installed. The easiest way to do so (if you have Python and pip installed on your computer) is to run the following pip command:

pip install awscli --upgrade --user

2. You can then check to see if the installation was successful by running the following command:

aws --version

For more specific instructions for your operating system, visit: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html.

3. To add our user credentials to the AWS CLI so that we can make API calls, we can run the following command that stores ...