Re:What is NMAP and how to use it?
by nobody9999 on Friday April 14, 2023 @09:24PM
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>As for the AWS rule, scanning open ports does not violate, by itself, any of those things.
Several years ago (so things may be different now), I snagged a free-tier (IIRC, it was free for six months or something like that) AWS instance specifically to battle-test my new firewall and config.
Within an hour of beginning tests, I received a notification from AWS asking me why I was doing port scans/etc. and that they wanted me to stop or I'd be kicked off.
I replied and documented that I was testing my own systems/networks and they backed off. I completed my testing and never heard anything from them after that.
Like I said, this was a few years ago (2019, I think), so things may be different now, but back then AWS was definitely proactive about this stuff.
Several years ago (so things may be different now), I snagged a free-tier (IIRC, it was free for six months or something like that) AWS instance specifically to battle-test my new firewall and config.
Within an hour of beginning tests, I received a notification from AWS asking me why I was doing port scans/etc. and that they wanted me to stop or I'd be kicked off.
I replied and documented that I was testing my own systems/networks and they backed off. I completed my testing and never heard anything from them after that.
Like I said, this was a few years ago (2019, I think), so things may be different now, but back then AWS was definitely proactive about this stuff.