The use of AWS cloud is now an urgent concern to businesses in Germany as organisations in different sectors are increasingly adopting it. By 2025, more than 81 percent of German companies said they use cloud services, with AWS being one of the leading providers on which to run finance, health, and manufacturing critical workloads. Security issues increase with the scalability of cloud infrastructure. By the end of March 2024, more than 100 million data records had been affected by common European-wide cyber incidents in Germany. In the controlled sectors that handle sensitive financial, health, or operational information, annual AWS cloud pentesting is not only one of the security best practices. It is a requirement for compliance and risk mitigation.
This guide will describe the approach to AWS pen testing in the German market in terms of scoping, tooling, reporting standards, and the ways that businesses can remain audit-ready within frameworks such as GDPR and BSI IT-Grundschutz.
