AWS external penetration testing. Self-serve, started today

Find what's actually exposed in your AWS account.

Public S3 buckets, internet-facing EC2 or container workloads, and credentials left sitting in exposed config are how most AWS environments actually get breached — not exotic zero-days. We manually test your AWS footprint for exactly what an attacker can reach without credentials: exposed storage, internet-facing services, and secrets sitting in public view. Start online, no scoping call.

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Why AWS teams end up here

AWS's shared responsibility model means the misconfigurations are on you — and they're common.

AWS secures the infrastructure; you secure what you build on top of it. That's where most real-world AWS breaches happen: a public S3 bucket, a security group left open to the internet, a management console or database port that should never have been internet-facing. A generic network scan won't catch most of this — it takes someone who knows AWS's service landscape testing your external footprint directly. That's what this engagement does.

What audit-grade means

Five commitments that separate a real pentest from a quick-find scan.

"Audit-grade" is a category, not a slogan. It means the report holds up to your auditor's review, your prospect's security team, and your insurance underwriter — not because we say so, but because of what we commit to do on every engagement.

Exposed storage & secrets

Public S3 buckets, exposed snapshots, and credentials or API keys sitting in public-facing config get tested directly — the way an attacker would actually find them.

Internet-facing workload testing

EC2, container endpoints, load balancers, and management consoles reachable from the internet are tested for real, exploitable exposure — not just an open-port list.

Retest from scratch

When you remediate, we retest everything from scratch, not just the listed findings. New issues that surfaced since the original test get reported too.

Honest pricing

Published list pricing by the number of assets you want tested. No quote, no negotiation, no sales-rep discount theater.

Self-serve, no calls

Answer a few quick questions, purchase, and receive your report. No scoping call, no sales rep, no procurement-cycle drag.

Coverage, not quick wins

Bug-bounty and PtaaS testing chases quick wins.
A real AWS pentest is graded on coverage, not the first finding.

The cheap pentest options inside compliance platform marketplaces optimize for time-to-first-finding. They're excellent at surfacing the obvious. They're not designed to comprehensively test what's exposed across your AWS footprint.

Quick-find testing

Bug-bounty and PtaaS researchers race for the first finding. Coverage of the rest of your AWS footprint isn't the goal of the system, and it isn't what gets reported.

Scanner-only testing

Automated config scanners find what they recognize. Exposed storage buckets, leaked secrets, and non-standard workloads are frequently missed.

Audit-grade testing

Every service on every in-scope AWS asset — storage, compute, load balancers, management interfaces. If you list it, we test it.

Honest pricing

Published rates. No quotes. No sales calls.

AWS environments vary from a handful of public-facing services to sprawling multi-account setups. Pricing scales with the number of hosts, IPs, or cloud endpoints you want tested.

How pricing works: The first asset covers the essential work every engagement requires — scoping, setup, validation, and reporting. Pricing scales with your environment from there. Count each public-facing host, IP, or cloud endpoint you want tested — they don't have to be contiguous or in the same network. If you have more than 256 assets, contact us.
Hosts, IPs, or cloud endpoints to test Price Price per asset
1$4,995$4,995
2–4$7,995$1,999 – $3,997
5–8$10,995$1,374 – $2,199
9–16$15,995$1,000 – $1,777
17–32$25,995$812 – $1,529
33–64$36,995$578 – $1,121
65–128$52,995$414 – $815
129–256$72,995$285 – $566

Manual validation included on every engagement. No false-positive reports. Fixed pricing designed for fast procurement.

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AWS Pentest FAQ

What AWS teams ask before they buy.

Do you review our AWS account configuration directly, or only what's internet-facing?
Only what's internet-facing. This is external penetration testing: public endpoints, exposed storage, internet-reachable workloads, and any credentials or secrets an attacker could find without logging into your account. We don't log into your AWS console or review IAM policies directly — that's a separate, credentialed engagement we don't offer today.
Will this affect our production workloads?
We scope testing windows and methods to avoid disruption, and coordinate on anything higher-risk before we run it. Tell us what's production versus non-production when you provide scope.
How long does it take?
There's no sales queue to wait on — scoping starts as soon as you check out. Duration scales with the number of assets in scope; we'll confirm your specific timeline before testing begins.
Is there a sales call?
No. Choose your scope from the pricing table and checkout online. Email hello@pentestexpress.com if you want to talk through scope first.
What if I need a retest after remediation?
We retest everything from scratch, not just the listed findings. Free retest within 14 days of report delivery. From day 15 through day 60, retest is 25% of the original price. After 60 days, a full re-engagement is recommended because the environment has typically drifted.
Can our procurement team approve this without a custom SOW?
Yes. Pricing is fixed and published. The standard authorization and rules-of-engagement are in our Terms of Service — most procurement teams clear it in days, not weeks. If your process specifically requires a Statement of Work, select that option at signup and we'll send it for signature through DocuSign instead of running payment through Stripe.
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The exact deliverable you'll receive.

Download a full sample report. No email required, no pressure, no follow-up calls. The format is the format.

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Operated by senior practitioners

Pentest Express is built and operated by a senior practitioner team.

Founded by Trey Blalock — 15+ years of penetration testing experience, 12 active certifications, and engagements across Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies including the DIA, FBI, and NSA. Speaker at DefCon and MITRE ATT&CKcon. Two DHS CISA keynotes.

The brand carries the quality reputation, not any individual tester. Every report is held to the same standard, on every engagement, regardless of who performs it.

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