AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Explanation

According to AWS's penetration testing policy, prior authorization is required before conducting penetration tests on EC2 instances. AWS has specific guidelines for penetration testing that customers must follow:

• AWS allows penetration testing of EC2 instances without prior approval for the following services: EC2 instances, NAT Gateways, and Elastic Load Balancers
• However, customers must still comply with AWS's penetration testing policy and avoid testing that could impact AWS infrastructure or other customers
• The policy is documented at: https://aws.amazon.com/security/penetration-testing/

Key Points:

• While some services don't require explicit approval, customers should still review and understand AWS's penetration testing policy
• Certain services (like RDS, DynamoDB, etc.) do require prior approval
• Always follow AWS's acceptable use policy and security best practices

Therefore, the statement is True - you do need authorization, though for EC2 instances specifically, AWS has streamlined this process and doesn't require explicit pre-approval for basic testing, but you must still operate within their policy framework.