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The Python AWS Trace Enumerator

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The Python AWS Trace Enumerator

- [Narrator] We don't have to work at the command line when testing AWS deployments using Python. We can use a GUI interface in our Python scripts. Let's look at the Python AWS tactical enumerator, or PATE, a GUI based AWS enumeration demonstrator built using the wxPython graphical interface library. You'll find the PATE script in your exercise files. PATE runs in Windows and provides an enumeration capability for a specified set of credentials. A list of the resources it can access and the register of Python testing scripts. It's not a production tool, but you can use it to build one, if you're so inclined. The first thing we need to do is install the AWS command line tool in Windows. We can download that from the AWS website shown here and it's a standard Windows install. I have this installed already, but take a moment if you need to install this. Let's check our AWS installation, AWS minus minus version. Okay. We have…

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