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AWS Shared Responsibility Model

AWS Shared Responsibility Model

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AWS secures the cloud infrastructure, while customers secure their configurations, identities, applications, and data in the cloud.

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English nameAWS Shared Responsibility Model
Full nameAWS Shared Responsibility Model
Chinese descriptionAWS 责任共担模型
Japanese descriptionAWS 責任共有モデル
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Often confused withAWS 的责任 / 客户的责任 / 托管服务边界

In one sentence

AWS secures the cloud infrastructure, while customers secure their configurations, identities, applications, and data in the cloud.

Key points

  • AWS is responsible for physical facilities, hardware, foundational networking, and virtualization.
  • Customers manage data, IAM, network rules, encryption choices, application security, backup policy, and recovery testing.
  • Customer responsibility is greater on EC2 and smaller at the infrastructure layer for RDS, Lambda, and DynamoDB, but never disappears.

Exam takeaway

Managed, fully managed, and serverless services still require correct permissions, configuration, cost control, and data protection.