Glossary

Keys

• The AWS access key pair used for authenticating with the AWS API. These include an access key ID, a secret access key, and (possibly) a session token.

Module

• A plugin to Pacu that performs a specific action against an AWS account. These fit in to a few general categories, but examples would include enumeration, exfiltration, or exploitation within an AWS environment.

Session

• Basically an isolated "project" within Pacu. As an example, in a penetration test, a session would be a single company and within that session, many different AWS keys and all relevant data would be stored in it.

Region

• An AWS region that hosts specific AWS services. There are many options, to see the ones Pacu supports, run the regions command from within Pacu.