What Is Cloud Penetration Testing?

Cloud penetration testing is a focused security assessment that simulates attacks against your cloud infrastructure — from misconfigured services and exposed secrets to privilege escalation and lateral movement.

It’s not just scanning for open ports. It’s about testing how your cloud environment actually stands up to real-world threats.

Why It’s Critical

Cloud infrastructure is dynamic, scalable, and complex — and traditional pentests don’t always cover it properly.

With services spun up and down on demand, roles and policies defining access, and APIs everywhere, cloud environments have a whole new kind of attack surface.

Cloud pentesting helps you:

  • Uncover misconfigurations and overly permissive IAM roles
  • Identify exposed assets like storage buckets, APIs, and shadow services
  • Test real-world access paths — from the outside and inside
  • Validate your detection and response in a cloud-native context
  • Reduce risk of breaches, data leaks, and privilege escalation
  • Meet security and compliance goals with evidence of proactive testing

What Makes It Different

Traditional pentests stop at the perimeter. Cloud pentests go deeper.

They explore:

  • ✅ Identity & Access Management (IAM) weaknesses
  • ✅ Overlooked assets in multi-cloud setups
  • ✅ Abused cloud metadata services
  • ✅ Misconfigured storage, logging, and monitoring
  • ✅ Serverless and container attack paths
  • ✅ Lateral movement within VPCs or cloud accounts
  • ✅ Real attacker tactics — not just static scans

We use provider-specific knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP) to simulate realistic scenarios — with minimal impact to your production environment.

What We Deliver

At Cloud Tribe, we bring deep cloud knowledge and real attacker thinking to every engagement.

Our cloud pentesting service includes:

  • ✅ Cloud configuration and IAM reviews
  • ✅ External and internal cloud attack surface mapping
  • ✅ Manual exploitation of discovered vulnerabilities
  • ✅ Role chaining and privilege escalation testing
  • ✅ Secure-by-default architecture recommendations
  • ✅ Provider-specific findings and guidance (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • ✅ Clear reporting: executive overview + technical findings
  • ✅ Optional retesting to validate fixes

Cloud security is different — and so is cloud pentesting.

Cloud Tribe gives you clarity, confidence, and a clear path to stronger cloud defenses.