Cloud Penetration Testing: AWS vs Azure Attack Surfaces Compared

Cloud Breaches Start with Misconfigurations Over 90% of cloud security incidents trace back to customer-side misconfigurations rather than provider vulnerabilities. Cloud penetration testing simulates how an attacker chains these misconfigurations together. Top AWS Findings Over-permissive IAM policies and role trust relationships Public S3 buckets containing sensitive artefacts IMDSv1 enabled allowing SSRF-to-credential pivots Top Azure Findings Privileged service principals with expired ownership Storage account keys exposed in DevOps pipelines Conditional Access gaps for legacy authentication Our methodology covers configuration review, identity attack paths, and exploitation with safe proof-of-concept demonstrations.