Amazon EC2 and Pen-Testing Form

Question

I want to get an Amazon EC2 instance (first year trial is for free) for my tutorials but I have found out that I need to complete form about Pen-Testing on their website, as I will be using Amazon EC2 instance only to perform such actions on my own systems which I physically own so I was just wondering if a normal person like me can apply for it or is it just limited to a companies and normal users can't apply for it ?

I will appreciate any help.

Kind Regards

Answer 1

You can apply just like anybody else - no special qualifications needed. Mostly they want to make sure you are only pen testing against your own instances, not somebody else's instance.

But also keep in mind, since it sounds like you are trying to stay within the free-tier, that you are probably going to need to pay for a bigger instance to test against:

At this time, our policy does not permit testing small or micro RDS instance types. Testing of m1.small or t1.micro EC2 instance types is not permitted. This is to prevent potential adverse performance impacts on resources that may be shared with other customers.