Penetration testing is a cyber attack against your infrastructure to test exploitable vulnerabilities. The main objective of pen testing is to determine security weakness. AWS considers pen testing as abusive behavior so it, by default, blocks the source IP. Before performing pen testing, you need to inform AWS about the test.
Submitting a penetration testing request
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