# Pathfinding Labs: Deploy, test, and learn from 100+ intentionally vulnerable AWS environments

DevFeed: [Pathfinding Labs: Deploy, test, and learn from 100+ intentionally vulnerable AWS environments](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/pathfinding-labs-deploy-test-and-learn-from-100-intentionally-vulnerable-aws-environments-8289.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/introducing-pathfinding-labs/>)

Author: Seth Art

Published: 2026-05-18T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Datadog Security Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/datadog-security-labs.md>)

Topics: [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [AWS IAM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-iam.md>), [Terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/terraform.md>), [Go Language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go-language.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Text-based user interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tui.md>), [ctf](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ctf.md>), [Detection engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/detection-engineering.md>), [Security & compliance, Cloud security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security-compliance-cloud-security.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-iam](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-iam.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-security.md>), [ctf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ctf.md>), [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [iam](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iam.md>), [sandbox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sandbox.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [techniques](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/techniques.md>), [terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/terraform.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>), [validation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/validation.md>)

## AI overview

Pathfinding Labs is a collection of more than 100 intentionally vulnerable AWS environments for practicing and validating detection of IAM privilege-escalation and other cloud security misconfigurations. The project includes a web catalog with CTF-style hints and solutions, Terraform-based labs, and plabs, a Go CLI with an interactive terminal interface for deploying and exploiting the labs.

## Source excerpt

Introducing Pathfinding Labs, a collection of intentionally vulnerable AWS environments for red teamers and blue teamers to deploy, exploit, and use for detection validation.