Overview
Kali Linux is a Debian Linux distribution specifically designed for Penetration Testing (Pentesting), a cybersecurity procedure companies perform to check the vulnerability of their IT infrastructure from external threats.
This AMI is fully configured with the standard set of tools provided by Kali Linux distribution that can be used for pentesting. The Kali Linux desktop could be accessed by the users using Microsoft Remote Desktop, and that is an important feature because some pentesting tools have GUI and accessing the Kali Linux host using SSH alone might not be enough to use all the tools available on the pentesting platform.
Kurian Linux AMIs are patched and up-to-date on the day of the release, and the updates are published every quarter. These AMIs are ideal to be used in automated provisioning processes such as that in an auto-scale group without having to worry about the availability of latest patches and the delay of applying those before adding the machines to a cluster.
Highlights
- Highly configured Kali Linux AMI based on official distribution of the OS image, and ready to use for pentesting immediately after spinning up the instance.
- The AMI is preloaded with the pentesting tools available with Kali Linux distribution.
- Configured to access Kali Linux desktop running on the EC2 node with no additional configuration.
Details
Typical total price
$0.146/hour
Pricing
Free trial
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.nano | $0.00 | $0.006 | $0.006 |
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.05 | $0.012 | $0.062 |
t2.small | $0.05 | $0.023 | $0.073 |
t2.medium | $0.05 | $0.046 | $0.096 |
t2.large | $0.05 | $0.093 | $0.143 |
t2.xlarge | $0.05 | $0.186 | $0.236 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.05 | $0.371 | $0.421 |
t3.nano | $0.00 | $0.005 | $0.005 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.05 | $0.01 | $0.06 |
t3.small | $0.05 | $0.021 | $0.071 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3) volumes | $0.08/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
Free evaluation of the AMI for 2 weeks available. The charges are usage based and it can be discontinued anytime.
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Fully configured v2024.3 including the all tools for pentesting and the Kali Desktop packaged by Kurian and released on September 27th, 2024. Details available at https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2024-3-release/
Additional details
Usage instructions
- SSH into a newly provisioned EC2 node as user kali using the private key configured for the EC2 node during its provisioning.
- Kali Linux desktop runs on port 3390. The node can be accessed using Microsoft Remote Desktop from Windows or Mac. Use IP-ADDRESS:3390 as the PC Name, "kali" as the user and "instance id" of the EC2 node as the password.
- Details of the usage instructions are available at https://kurianinc.us/aws-machine-images/kali-linux-for-pentesting/
- The details on pentesting tools are documented here: https://www.kali.org/docs/tools/
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