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List of open source tools for AWS security: defensive, offensive, auditing, DFIR, etc.

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Name Description Popularity Metadata
My Arsenal of AWS Security Tools This list of open source tools for AWS security: defensive, offensive, auditing, DFIR, etc.

Defensive: Hardening, Security Assessment and Inventory

Name Description Popularity Metadata
Prowler Prowler is an Open Source Security tool for AWS, Azure and GCP to perform Cloud Security best practices assessments, audits, incident response, compliance, continuous monitoring, hardening and forensics readiness. Includes CIS, NIST 800, NIST CSF, CISA, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, FFIEC, SOC2, GXP, Well-Architected Security, ENS and more. (Python)
CloudMapper helps you analyze your AWS environments (Python)
ScoutSuite Multi-Cloud Security auditing tool for AWS Google Cloud and Azure environments (python)
CloudCustodian Rules engine for cloud security, cost optimization, and governance, DSL in yaml for policies to query, filter, and take actions on resources
ICE Ice provides insights from a usage and cost perspective with high detail dashboards.
CloudSploit Scans AWS security scanning checks (NodeJS)
AWS Network Access Analyzer Automation for Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer to identify all possible Internet Gateway reachability for your resources across all your AWS accounts
CloudTracker helps you find over-privileged IAM users and roles by comparing CloudTrail logs with current IAM policies (Python)
AWS Security Benchmarks scripts and templates guidance related to the AWS CIS Foundation framework (Python)
AWS Public IPs Fetch all public IP addresses tied to your AWS account. Works with IPv4/IPv6 Classic/VPC networking and across all AWS services (Ruby)
PMapper Advanced and Automated AWS IAM Evaluation (Python)
nccgroup AWS-Inventory Make a inventory of all your resources across regions (Python)
Resource Counter Counts number of resources in categories across regions
SkyArk SkyArk provides advanced discovery and security assessment for the most privileged entities in the tested AWS.
findmytakeover find dangling domains in a multi cloud environment
Trailblazer AWS Trailblazer AWS determine what AWS API calls are logged by CloudTrail and what they are logged as. You can also use TrailBlazer as an attack simulation framework.
Lunar Security auditing tool based on several security frameworks (it does some AWS checks)
Cloud-reports Scans your AWS cloud resources and generates reports
Pacbot Platform for continuous compliance monitoring compliance reporting and security automation for the cloud
cs-suite Integrates tools like Scout2 and Prowler among others
aws-key-disabler A small lambda script that will disable access keys older than a given amount of days
Antiope AWS Inventory and Compliance Framework
Cloud Reports Scans your AWS cloud resources and generates reports and includes security best practices.
Terraform AWS Secure Baseline Terraform module to set up your AWS account with the secure
ZeusCloud Discover, prioritize, and remediate security risks in your AWS cloud environments.
Cartography Cartography is a Python tool that consolidates infrastructure assets and the relationships between them in an intuitive graph view powered by a Neo4j database.
TrailScraper A command-line tool to get valuable information out of AWS CloudTrail
Komiser Cloud Environment Inspector analyze and manage cloud cost usage security and governance in one place.
Perimeterator AWS perimeter monitoring. Periodically scan internet facing AWS resources to detect misconfigured services
PolicySentry IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator auditor and analysis database
Zeus AWS Auditing & Hardening Tool
janiko71 AWS-inventory Python script for AWS resources inventory
awspx A graph-based tool for visualizing effective access and resource relationships in AWS environments
clinv DevSecOps command line asset inventory tool
aws-gate Enhanced AWS SSM Session manager CLI client
Detecting Credential Compromise Detecting of your compromised credential in AWS
AWS-Security-Toolbox (AST) AWS Security Toolbox (Docker Image) for Security Assessments
iam-lint Github action for linting AWS IAM policy documents for correctness and possible security issues
aws-security-viz A tool to visualize aws security groups.
AirIAM Least privilege AWS IAM using Terraform
Cloudsplaining AWS IAM Security Assessment tool that identifies violations of least privilege and generates a risk-prioritized HTML report.
iam-policy-generator A simple library to generate IAM policy statements with no need to remember all the actions APIs
SkyWrapper SkyWrapper helps to discover suspicious creation forms and uses of temporary tokens in AWS
aws-recon Multi-threaded AWS inventory collection tool
iam-policies-cli A CLI tool for building simple to complex IAM policies
Aaia AWS Identity and Access Management Visualizer and Anomaly Finder
iam-floyd IAM policy statement generator with fluent interface - Available for Node.js, Python, .Net and Java
rpCheckup AWS resource policy security checkup tool that identifies public, external account access, intra-org account access, and private resources.
S3 Exif Cleaner Remove EXIF data from all objects in an S3 bucket
Steampipe Use SQL to instantly query your cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP and more). Open source CLI. No DB required. (SQL)
access-undenied-aws Parses AWS AccessDenied CloudTrail events, explains the reasons for them, and offers actionable remediation steps.
Metabadger Prevent SSRF attacks on AWS EC2 via automated upgrades to the more secure Instance Metadata Service v2 (IMDSv2).
AWS-Firewall Factory Deploy, update, and stage your WAFs while managing them centrally via FMS (CDK)
IAMSpy A library that utilises the Z3 prover to attempt to answer questions about AWS IAM.
nuvola Dump and perform automatic and manual security analysis on AWS environments configurations and services using predefined, extensible and custom rules created using a simple Yaml syntax
aws-security-architectures Architectures for AWS security. (Detect, Alarm, Macie, etc.) Many architectures will be added in the future.
MetaHub for AWS Security Hub MetaHub is the CLI utility for AWS Security Hub which provides you with extra functionality like grouping your findings by affected reources, executing MetaChecks and MetaTags directly in the affected resource for enriching your findings, filters on top of MetaChecks and MetaTags, different reports like CSV, JSON and HTML, bulk updates, and enriching your findings directly in AWS Security Hub.
Matano Matano is an open source cloud-native security lake platform (SIEM alternative) for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS.
aws-list-resources Uses the AWS Cloud Control API to list resources that are present in a given AWS account and region(s). Discovered resources are written to a JSON output file.
aws-summarize-account-activity Analyzes CloudTrail data of a given AWS account and generates a summary of recently active IAM principals, API calls they made and regions that were used. The summary is written to a JSON output file and can optionally be visualized as PNG files.
aws-lint-iam-policies Runs IAM policy linting checks against either a single AWS account or all accounts of an AWS Organization. Reports on policies that violate security best practices or contain errors. Supports both identity-based and resource-based policies.
cloud-audit AWS security scanner with attack chain detection (31 chains correlating findings into exploit paths) and IAM privilege escalation analysis (25 methods, replacing the abandoned PMapper). 94 curated checks across 23 AWS services with copy-paste AWS CLI + Terraform remediation for every finding. CIS AWS v3.0 compliance at 89% automation. Featured in Help Net Security (March 2026). (Python)

Offensive

Name Description Popularity Metadata
cloudfox Find exploitable attack paths in cloud infrastructure
WeirdAAL AWS Attack Library
Pacu AWS penetration testing toolkit
Cred Scanner A simple file-based scanner to look for potential AWS access and secret keys in files
AWS PWN A collection of AWS penetration testing junk
Cloudfrunt A tool for identifying misconfigured CloudFront domains
Cloudjack Route53/CloudFront Vulnerability Assessment Utility
Nimbostratus Tools for fingerprinting and exploiting Amazon cloud infrastructures
GitLeaks Audit git repos for secrets
TruffleHog Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets digging deep into commit history
DumpsterDiver "Tool to search secrets in various filetypes like keys (e.g. AWS Access Key Azure Share Key or SSH keys) or passwords."
Mad-King Proof of Concept Zappa Based AWS Persistence and Attack Platform
Cloud-Nuke A tool for cleaning up your cloud accounts by nuking (deleting) all resources within it
MozDef - The Mozilla Defense Platform The Mozilla Defense Platform (MozDef) seeks to automate the security incident handling process and facilitate the real-time activities of incident handlers.
Lambda-Proxy A bridge between SQLMap and AWS Lambda which lets you use SQLMap to natively test AWS Lambda functions for SQL Injection vulnerabilities.
CloudCopy Cloud version of the Shadow Copy attack against domain controllers running in AWS using only the EC2:CreateSnapshot permission
enumerate-iam Enumerate the permissions associated with AWS credential set
Barq A post-exploitation framework that allows you to easily perform attacks on a running AWS infrastructure
CCAT Cloud Container Attack Tool (CCAT) is a tool for testing security of container environments
Dufflebag Search exposed EBS volumes for secrets
attack_range A tool that allows you to create vulnerable instrumented local or cloud environments to simulate attacks against and collect the data into Splunk
whispers Identify hardcoded secrets and dangerous behaviours
Redboto Red Team AWS Scripts
CloudBrute A tool to find a company (target) infrastructure, files, and apps on the top cloud providers
Jiraffe Security reconnaissance and vulnerability scanner for Atlassian Jira, focused on misconfigurations, unauthenticated access, and CVE validation, with SSRF helpers for cloud metadata targets

Purple Teaming & Adversary Emulation

Name Description Popularity Metadata
Stratus Red Team Granular, Actionable Adversary Emulation for the Cloud
Leonidas Automated Attack Simulation in the Cloud complete with detection use cases.
Amazon Guardduty Tester This script is used to generate some basic detections of the GuardDuty service

Continuous Security Auditing

Name Description Popularity Metadata
Security Monkey
Krampus
Cloud Inquisitor
Disable keys after X days
Repokid Least Privilege
Wazuh CloudTrail module
Hammer
Streamalert
Billing Alerts CFN templates
Watchmen AWS account compliance using centrally managed Config Rules
ElectricEye Continuously monitor your AWS services for configurations that can lead to degradation of confidentiality, integrity or availability
SyntheticSun a defense-in-depth security automation and monitoring framework which utilizes threat intelligence, machine learning, managed AWS security services and, serverless technologies to continuously prevent, detect and respond to threats
CloudQuery cloudquery exposes your cloud configuration and metadata as sql tables, providing powerful analysis and monitoring for compliance and security
PrismX Cloud Security Dashboard for AWS - based on ScoutSuite
Falco Threat detection and response for containers, hosts, Kubernetes and the cloud
Cynative AI agents framework built to investigate cloud security + 45 workflow blueprints across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, GitHub & GitLab. Completely open-source - Apache 2.0.

Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Name Description Popularity Metadata
AWS IR AWS specific Incident Response and Forensics Tool
Margaritashotgun Linux memory remote acquisition tool
Diffy Triage tool used during cloud-centric security incidents
AWS Security Automation AWS scripts and resources for DevSecOps and automated incident response
GDPatrol Automated Incident Response based off AWS GuardDuty findings
AWSlog Show the history and changes between configuration versions of AWS resources using AWS Config
DataCop Automated IR process that mitigates vulnerable AWS S3 buckets that are defined by AWS Macie results.
AWS_Responder AWS Digital Forensic and Incident Response (DFIR) Response Python Scripts
SSM-Acquire A python module for orchestrating content acquisitions and analysis via Amazon SSM
cloudtrail-partitioner This project sets up partitioned Athena tables for your CloudTrail logs and updates the partitions nightly. Makes CloudTrail logs queries easier.
fargate-ir Proof of concept incident response demo using SSM and AWS Fargate.
aws-logsearch Search AWS CloudWatch logs all at once on the command line.
Varna Quick & Cheap AWS CloudTrail Monitoring with Event Query Language (EQL)
aws-auto-remediate Open source application to instantly remediate common security issues through the use of AWS Config
panther-labs Detect threats with log data and improve cloud security posture
aws-incident-response This page is a collection of useful things to look for in CloudTrail using Athena for AWS incident response
cloud-forensics-utils Python library to carry out DFIR analysis on the Cloud
aws-fast-fixes Scripts to quickly fix security and compliance issues

Development Security

Name Description Popularity Metadata
Automated Security Helper (ASH) ASH is a one stop shop for code security scans, and does not require any installation. It will identify the relevant frameworks, and download the relevant, up to date tools. ASH is running on isolated Docker containers, keeping the user environment clean, with a single aggregated report. The following frameworks are supported: Git, Python, Javascript, Cloudformation, Terraform and Jupyter notebook.
CFN NAG CloudFormation security test (Ruby)
Git-secrets
Repository of sample Custom Rules for AWS Config
CFripper "Lambda function to ""rip apart"" a CloudFormation template and check it for security compliance."
Assume A simple CLI utility that makes it easier to switch between different AWS roles
Terrascan A collection of security and best practice tests for static code analysis of terraform templates using terraform_validate
tfsec Provides static analysis of your terraform templates to spot potential security issues
Checkov Terraform, Cloudformation and Kubernetes static analysis written in python
Yor Automatically tag and trace infrastructure as code frameworks (Terraform, Cloudformation and Serverless)
pytest-services Unit testing framework for test driven security of AWS configurations and more
IAM Least-Privileged Role Generator A Serverless framework plugin that statically analyzes AWS Lambda function code and automagically generates least-privileged IAM roles.
AWS Vault A vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments
AWS Service Control Policies Collection of semi-useful Service Control Policies and scripts to manage them
Terraform-compliance A lightweight security focused BDD test framework against terraform (with helpful code for AWS)
Get a List of AWS Managed Policies a way to get a list of all AWS managed policies
Parliament AWS IAM linting library
AWS-ComplianceMachineDontStop Proof of Value Terraform Scripts to utilize Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Identity & Compliance Services to Support your AWS Account Security Posture
detect-secrets An enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code.
tf-parliament Run Parliament AWS IAM Checker on Terraform Files
aws-gate Better AWS SSM Session manager CLI client
iam-lint Github action for linting AWS IAM policy documents for correctness and possible security issues
Regula Regula checks Terraform for AWS security and compliance using Open Policy Agent/Rego
whispers Identify hardcoded secrets and dangerous behaviours
cloudformation-guard A set of tools to check AWS CloudFormation templates for policy compliance using a simple, policy-as-code, declarative syntax.
IAMFinder Enumerates and finds users and IAM roles in a target AWS account
iamlive Generate a basic IAM policy from AWS client-side monitoring (CSM)
aws-allowlister Automatically compile an AWS Service Control Policy that ONLY allows AWS services that are compliant with your preferred compliance frameworks.
Leapp Cross-platform app for managing AWS credentials programmatically, based on Electron
KICS Find security vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfigurations early in the development cycle of your infrastructure-as-code
SecurityHub CIS Compliance Automator Automatically configure your AWS Account to meet 95% of the 200+ controls for CIS Compliance, PCI DSS Compliance and AWS Security Best Practice
SCPkit A SCP management tool that helps condense policies
Codemodder A pluggable framework for building expressive codemods. Use Codemodder when you need more than a linter or code formatting tool. Use it to fix non-trivial security issues and other code quality problems

S3 Buckets Auditing

Name Description Popularity Metadata
mass3 enumerate through a pre-compiled list of AWS S3 buckets using DNS instead of HTTP with a list of DNS resolvers and multi-threading
teh_s3_bucketeers
bucket-stream Find interesting Amazon S3 Buckets by watching certificate transparency logs
s3-buckets-finder brute force Amazon S3 bucket
s3find find S3 public buckets
slurp-robbie Enumerate S3 buckets via certstream, domain, or keywords
s3-inspector check AWS S3 bucket permissions
s3-fuzzer
AWSBucketDump Look For Interesting Files in S3 Buckets
s3scan scan s3 buckets for security issues
S3Scanner Scan for open AWS S3 buckets and dump the contents
s3finder open S3 bucket finder
S3Scan spider a website and find publicly open S3 buckets
s3-meta Gather metadata about your S3 buckets
s3-utils Utilities and tools based around Amazon S3 to provide convenience APIs in a CLI
S3PublicBucketsCheck A lambda function that checks your account for Public buckets and emails you whenever a new public s3 bucket is created
bucket_finder Amazon bucket brute force tool
inSp3ctor AWS S3 Bucket/Object Finder
bucketcat Brute-forces objects within a given bucket using Hashcat mask-like syntax
aws-s3-data-finder AWS S3 Sensitive Data Search
lazys3 bruteforce AWS s3 buckets using different permutations
BucketScanner Test objects' permissions in AWS buckets
aws-externder-cli Test S3 buckets as well as Google Storage buckets and Azure Storage containers to find interesting files
festin S3 bucket weakness discovery
S3Insights a platform for efficiently deriving security insights about S3 data through metadata analysis
s3_objects_check Whitebox evaluation of effective S3 object permissions, to identify publicly accessible files.
s3dns Passive DNS-based discovery of S3 (and other cloud) buckets by resolving CNAMEs and IPs during reconβ€”ideal for stealthy and early identification of cloud storage exposures

Training

Name Description Popularity Metadata
Flaws.cloud flAWS challenge to learn through a series of levels about common mistakes and gotchas when using AWS
Flaws2.cloud flAWS 2 has two paths this time Attacker and Defender! In the Attacker path you'll exploit your way through misconfigurations in serverless (Lambda) and containers (ECS Fargate). In the Defender path that target is now viewed as the victim and you'll work as an incident responder for that same app understanding how an attack happened
CloudGoat Vulnerable by Design AWS infrastructure setup tool
dvca Damn Vulnerable Cloud Application more info
AWSDetonationLab Scripts and templates to generate some basic detections of the AWS security services
OWASPServerlessGoat OWASP ServerlessGoat is a deliberately insecure realistic AWS Lambda serverless application maintained by OWASP for educational purposes. Single click installation through the AWS Serverless Application Repository.
Sadcloud A tool for spinning up insecure AWS infrastructure with Terraform. It supports approx. 84 misconfigurations across 22 AWS Services.
BigOrange Actions Paste your IAM Policy and get a list of Actions it can effectively perform
IncidentResponseGenerator Incident response generator for training classes
Breaking and Pwning Apps and Servers on AWS and Azure Course content, lab setup instructions and documentation of our very popular Breaking and Pwning Apps and Servers on AWS and Azure hands on training!
terragoat "Vulnerable by Design" Terraform repository. TerraGoat is a learning and training project that demonstrates how common configuration errors can find their way into production cloud environments.
cfngoat "Vulnerable by Design" cloudformation repository. CfnGoat is a learning and training project that demonstrates how common configuration errors can find their way into production cloud environments.
CDKgoat "Vulnerable by Design" AWS CDK repository. CDKGoat is a learning and training project that demonstrates how common configuration errors can find their way into impartive IAC such as AWS CDK.
aws_exposable_resources Resource types that can be publicly exposed on AWS
IAM Vulnerable Use Terraform to create your own vulnerable by design AWS IAM privilege escalation playground
PenTesting.Cloud Free AWS Security Labs - CTF Style
AWSGoat : A Damn Vulnerable AWS Infrastructure AWSGoat is a vulnerable by design AWS infrastructure featuring OWASP Top 10 web application security risks (2021) and AWS service based misconfigurations.

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Overview (`ami/README.md`)

Create an AMI with all security tools in the arsenal list

Configuration scripts for building a custom Amazon AMI with HashiCorp Packer.

NOT WORKING YET
Still in development

Setup

  • You must have Packer installed on your local system.
    For more information, see Installing Packer
    in the Packer documentation.

  • You must also have AWS account credentials configured so that Packer can make
    calls to AWS API operations on your behalf. For more information, see Authentication
    in the Packer documentation.

Note

The default region used is to build this AMI is us-east-1 and the instance
type is a t2.medium (4GB RAM, 2vCPUs, EBS only and $0.046400 hourly) and does
not qualify for the AWS free tier. You are charged for any instances created
when building this AMI. The base AMI used is ami-b70554c8, Amazon Linux 2.

Building the AMI

A Makefile is provided to build the AMI, but it is just a small wrapper around
invoking Packer directly. You can initiate the build process by running the
following command in the root of this repository:

bash
make

The Makefile runs Packer with the my-aws-security-arsenal-packer-config.json
build specification template and the amazon-ebs
builder. An instance is launched and the Packer Shell
Provisioner
runs the
install-tools.sh script on the instance to install software and perform other
necessary configuration tasks. Then, Packer creates an AMI from the instance
and terminates the instance after the AMI is created.

Using the AMI

If you are just getting started with security tools, visit https://github.com/toniblyx/my-arsenal-of-aws-security-tools
and get familiar with every tool that you are interested in.

Launch an instance with the new AMI ID that is returned when Packer finishes building.

Reference

Some code is taken as reference from here https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-eks-ami


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