Learn cloud computing fundamentals
and explore leading cloud platforms

Topic : Cryptography and Cloud Security

1) Cryptography.

2) Cloud Computing Fundamentals.

3) Cloud Security Core Concepts.

4) Major Cloud Platforms Overview.

5) Cloud Vulnerabilities & Risks.

Open AWS Website

Go to:https://aws.amazon.com/

Click on “Create an AWS Account”

Click Sign Up / Create Account

Enter Email and Account Name

Verify Your email . You will receive a verification code on your registered email address as shown below.

Copy that Code and enter into the verification code as shown below.

Enter Rootuser Password by following  the instructions.

Choose The Plan

Choose Free plan from the plan shown in Choose your account plan section.

Add information to sign up

Add Billing Information

 Enter a Verification Code on your registered mobile phone

Choose the identity for aws account will use 

Verify your Identity

After All verification and steps once done  you see this screen

This type of the Aws Dashboard :

Go to the aws Management console  And Search EC2

After Search You will see the Ec2 Dashboard

Click on the Launch Instance Button for Creating the Instance

You will see the instance dashboard and info Name and Select Ubuntu OS

Select the Instance type t2 micro (FREE TIER)

Create Key PairClick Create Key Pair

• Name → cartforge-key

• Download .pem file

Scroll down In the Network Setting Allow SSH HTTP and HTTPS

After all done you can launch the instance by click on the launch instance button

After click on the Launch instance  button you will see the instance is running after 2 by 2 checks your instance is ready

After click on the instance checkbox you can see the public IP so copy that public IP

After Click On the copy Open Command Prompt Write Below Command to connect Ec2 Sever

Once Connected , You will see something like

After successfully launching the Ubuntu EC2 server on AWS, the team is excited to start working on it.

Check Current User

Check User ID Info

Check Current Location

Check System Info

List File

Create VPC

Search for VPC

Click Create VPC

Configuration

• Name: cartforge-vpc

• IPv4 CIDR block: 10.0.0.0/16

Click Create VPC

Create Subnets

Public Subnet

Go to Subnets → Create subnet

• Name: cartforge-public-subnet

• VPC: cartforge-vpc

• CIDR: 10.0.1.0/24

• Availability Zone: select any

Click Create

Private Subnet

Create another subnet

• Name: cartforge-private-subnet

• VPC: cartforge-vpc

• CIDR: 10.0.2.0/24

Lets create a route table for public ubnet

Go to route table

And it is done

Create Internet Gateway

• Go to AWS Console

• Search for VPC

• Click Internet Gateways

• Click Create Internet Gateway

Configuration

Name: cartforge-igw

Click Create

Attach Internet Gateway to VPC

• Select the created Internet Gateway

• Click Actions → Attach to VPC

Select your VPC (cartforge-vpc)

Click Attach

Update Route Table for Public Subnet

Go to Route Tables

Select your public route table (public-rt)

Add Internet Route

• Click Edit routes

• Add new route:

• Destination: 0.0.0.0/0

• Target: Internet Gateway (cartforge-igw)

Associate Route Table with Public Subnet

• In the same route table, go to Subnet Associations

• Click Edit associations

Select cartforge-public-subnet and Click Save

Enable Public IP Assignment

• Go to Subnets

• Select public-subnet

Click Edit subnet settings

Enable:

Auto-assign public IPv4 address

Click Save

Launch EC2 Instance in Public Subnet

Go to EC2 → Launch Instance

Configuration

Name: cartforge-public-instance

AMI: Ubuntu

Instance type: t2.micro

Network Settings

• VPC: cartforge-vpc

• Subnet: public-subnet

• Auto-assign public IP: Enabled

Security Group

Allow:

• SSH (22) from your IP

• HTTP (80) from anywhere

Connect to EC2 Instance

chmod 400 key.pem

ssh -i key.pem ubuntu@your-public-ip

And it got connected

Validate Internet Connectivity

Test 1: Ping External Site

ping google.com

Test 2: Update Packages

sudo apt update

Test 3: Install Package

sudo apt install curl -y

Test 4: Access External URL

curl http://google.com

If all commands work, internet connectivity is successful.

Validate Routing

Check Routing Table

Expected Output Includes

This confirms traffic is routed to internet gateway.

Launch an ICMP flood against the target machine.

Start packet capture for ICMP traffic.

Observe incoming ICMP Echo Requests from multiple source addresses.

Return to the attacker machine.

Launch a SYN flood against TCP port 80.

Let the attack run briefly and observe the packet generation.

On the target machine, open a terminal.

Start packet capture for  SYN traffic.

Observe the Flood on target machine Using

Great job!

You have successfully completed your lab on Extracting System Information Using Enumeration Techniques.

In this lab, you have: Discovered Active Hosts, Identified Open TCP/UDP Ports, Performed Service and OS Enumeration, Enumerated Users and Shared Resources, Gathered Information using rpcclient and enum4linux, and Conducted DNS and Domain Enumeration using dig, nslookup, and whois.

You are now ready to move to the next stage of Vulnerability Assessment and Security Testing.

Topic : Enumeration and Vulnerability Assessment

1) Enumeration techniques.

2) Identifying vulnerabilities.