Steampipe vs WeirdAAL
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About Steampipe
Steampipe is an open-source tool from Turbot that lets you query cloud infrastructure, SaaS services, and more using standard SQL. Rather than learning dozens of CLI tools and API formats, you write SQL queries against a unified schema powered by PostgreSQL. With over 140 plugins covering AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, GitHub, Slack, and many others, Steampipe provides a single pane of glass for infrastructure visibility. Its compliance frameworks (called Mods) include pre-built benchmarks for CIS, NIST, PCI DSS, and SOC 2, making it a powerful tool for both security auditing and operational troubleshooting. Steampipe also supports dashboards for visualization and can export results in JSON, CSV, or markdown.
About WeirdAAL
WeirdAAL (AWS Attack Library) is a Python framework for offensive testing of Amazon Web Services environments. It organizes AWS attacks into categorized modules covering enumeration (listing resources, permissions, and configurations across services), exploitation (abusing misconfigurations and excessive permissions), and persistence (creating backdoor access). WeirdAAL supports testing across a wide range of AWS services including IAM, EC2, S3, Lambda, STS, CloudTrail, and many others. Each module performs a specific action - from enumerating all S3 buckets and their ACLs, to checking for privilege escalation paths through IAM policy misconfigurations, to creating persistence mechanisms via Lambda backdoors. WeirdAAL uses boto3 and works with standard AWS credential configurations, making it easy to test with compromised or provided access keys.
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