Cost guide
Cloud Penetration Testing Cost
Cloud penetration testing starts at $6,800 for a single cloud account, fixed in writing before work begins. That covers manual testing of IAM, storage, and services across AWS, Azure, or GCP, chained into real attack paths, with a benchmark review, full reporting, and a free retest of every fix.
Small
A single cloud account on one provider, AWS, Azure, or GCP, with a contained set of identities and storage and a handful of services in scope.
Medium
Several accounts or subscriptions on one provider, more identities and services, and a Kubernetes cluster or serverless workloads tested alongside them.
Large
A multi-account or multi-cloud estate across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with many identities, complex organization structures, and container platforms.
What moves the number
What drives the cost of cloud penetration testing
Number of cloud accounts
Each account or subscription is its own set of identities, storage, and network rules to enumerate and attack. One account is contained; a dozen accounts with cross-account trust is a much larger map to work through.
Which providers
AWS, Azure, and GCP each have their own identity model and attack paths, so a multi-cloud estate is effectively several tests. A single provider keeps the plan focused and the price lower.
Identity and policy complexity
IAM is where cloud compromise happens. Many roles, wildcard policies, federated identity, and cross-account trust each add privilege-escalation paths to trace, so a sprawling permission model drives the effort up.
Container and serverless workloads
Kubernetes clusters, serverless functions, and their service accounts add a whole workload layer on top of the account. Testing RBAC, exposed dashboards, and escape paths is extra scope beyond the cloud identities themselves.
Level of access provided
Read-only credentials let us map identities and build attack paths efficiently. Fully external, no-access testing takes longer for less certainty, and proving paths end to end needs scoped test identities agreed up front.
In the price
What every cloud penetration testing price includes
- ✓Testing across AWS, Azure, or GCP identities, storage, network, and services
- ✓A CIS benchmark configuration review included as the starting point
- ✓Container, Kubernetes, and serverless workloads where they are in scope
- ✓A fixed price agreed in writing before work begins, with no hourly billing
- ✓An executive summary for leadership and a full technical report with reproduction steps
- ✓A free retest of remediated findings, with the report updated to show them closed
- ✓An attestation letter and findings platform access at no extra cost
- ✓Senior in-house testers, OSCP and OSCE3 certified
Keep it tight
How to keep the price down
- 01Grant a scoped read-only identity at the start. It lets us enumerate identities, policies, and storage efficiently and build attack paths without the delay of external-only discovery.
- 02Scope to one provider, or to the accounts that actually hold sensitive data, rather than the whole estate. A focused boundary is cheaper now and covers the real risk first.
- 03Share your architecture diagram and account structure during scoping. Knowing where identities, storage, and workloads live means we spend the engagement testing them, not reverse-engineering the layout.
- 04Include infrastructure-as-code where you have it. Reviewing Terraform or CloudFormation alongside the live environment is efficient and stops the same misconfiguration from redeploying after we flag it.
Timeline
Onboarding starts within 24 hours of a signed proposal, and testing typically begins within a week of scoping. A single-account environment runs about a week of testing followed by reporting. Multi-account, multi-cloud, or container-heavy estates take longer. Critical findings are shared as we confirm them, and the free retest follows your remediation.
FAQ
Questions about cloud penetration testing cost
01How much does a cloud penetration test cost?
It starts at $6,800 for a single cloud account, fixed before work begins, with a free retest included. Medium environments start at $10,500 and large multi-account or multi-cloud estates at $17,500 and up. Every starting price is on the pricing page.
02What drives the price of a cloud test?
The number of accounts, how many providers are in scope, and how complex your identity and policy model is. Each account is its own map of identities and storage, and AWS, Azure, and GCP each have their own attack paths, so a multi-cloud estate is effectively several tests.
03Do you need access to our cloud account, and does that change the cost?
A scoped read-only identity lets us enumerate identities, policies, and storage efficiently and build real attack paths, which keeps the engagement tighter than external-only testing. We can also test purely from the outside. Either way, testing stays inside the accounts and rules you approve.
04Are Kubernetes and serverless workloads extra?
They are part of the scope rather than a separate product, but they add a workload layer on top of the cloud account: RBAC, exposed dashboards, and escape paths to test. A container-heavy or serverless-heavy environment is more to cover, which the fixed price accounts for.
05How can we keep a cloud test affordable?
Grant a scoped read-only identity at the start, scope to one provider or the accounts that hold sensitive data, and share your architecture and account structure. Including infrastructure-as-code also stops the same misconfiguration from redeploying after we flag it.
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