Flaws: learn about common mistakes and gotchas when using AWS
Learn AWS security with the flAWS challenge
Flaws: learn about common mistakes and gotchas when using AWS launched on January 10, 2018 with 35 votes, #859 of 3,021 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
In plain words
Flaws is an interactive challenge platform that teaches AWS security by having users identify and exploit common mistakes in intentionally vulnerable cloud configurations. Designed for developers and security professionals learning AWS, it presents real-world security scenarios and gotchas that can occur when using the platform. The challenge format makes learning about AWS vulnerabilities practical and hands-on.
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From the sources
Through a series of levels you'll learn about common mistakes and gotchas when using Amazon Web Services (AWS). There are no SQL injection, XSS, buffer overflows, or many of the other vulnerabilities you might have seen before. As much as possible, these are AWS specific issues. A series of hints are provided that will teach you how to discover the info you'll need. If you don't want to actually run any commands, you can just keep following the hints which will give you the solution to the next level. At the start of each level you'll learn how to avoid the problem the previous level exhibited. Scope : Everything is run out of a single AWS account, and all challenges are sub-domains of…from flaws.cloud
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