Hunting for AWS Exposed Resources: S3, RDS, & SQS

The Global Epidemic of Publicly Exposed Cloud Assets

AWS allows users to make resources publicly accessible by design, but configuration oversights frequently expose private enterprise databases, queues, and object stores to the internet.

Scanning Beyond S3 Buckets

Felipe Pr0teus explores hunting methodologies targeting less-monitored AWS services—including public Amazon RDS database snapshots, exposed SQS message queues, and unauthenticated Lambda function URLs.

Automating Attack Surface Discovery

Pr0teus demonstrates custom reconnaissance scripts that query public AWS resource APIs and parse DNS certificate transparency logs to identify corporate asset exposures.

Implementing Automated Cloud Guardrails

The author provides AWS IAM and SCP (Service Control Policy) templates to permanently block public resource sharing across enterprise AWS organizations.