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I am tempted to take a course like this (Certified Ethical Hacker seems the industry leading one) simply to get an idea of what I am missing

But I fear finding a lack of practical hands on stuff (I would want to bring up an aws instance that is vulnerable in ways x y and z and have to find them. Or something)

Does such a course exist

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Offensive Security[1] seems to offer some good introductory as well as advanced courses. They start at $800 though, so that may be a deterrant. But folks who I know have gone through it and the tests and exams seem to be pretty comprehensive.

[1] https://www.offensive-security.com/

Don't do CEH :) It's focused (or at least was , last time I looked at the syllabus) on learning long lists of stuff about security testing tools, this is not a good way to learn about security testing/penetration testing/whatever people want to call it this year.

OSCP is a useful entry point in terms of what it teaches.

But there are also loads of free resources which can provide some hands on examples

https://pentesterlab.com/ is one example which has some good free examples as well as paid for additional content.

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