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05 AWS Shared Responsibility Model

AWS and the customer share responsibilities for security and compliance in the cloud.

AWS Responsibilities (Security of the Cloud)​

  • Protects the physical infrastructure, hardware, and software that run AWS services.
  • Manages networking, storage, and virtualization security.
  • Ensures compliance of underlying cloud infrastructure.
  • Infrastructure (global network security)
  • Configuration and vulnerability analysis
  • Compliance validation

Customer Responsibilities (Security in the Cloud)​

  • Configure and manage data, applications, and access controls.
  • Protect operating systems, platforms, and network traffic within your instances.
  • Ensure compliance for workloads deployed on AWS services.

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