AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Question 564

Which task is the responsibility of AWS, according to the AWS shared responsibility model?

Answer options

• A. Apply guest operating system patches to Amazon EC2 instances.
• B. Provide monitoring of human resources information management (HRIM) systems.
• C. Perform automated backups of Amazon RDS instances.
• D. Optimize the costs of running AWS services.

Correct answer: C

Explanation

Under the AWS shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for the 'security of the cloud,' which includes managing infrastructure and managed services like Amazon RDS, where automated backups are handled by AWS. In contrast, the customer is responsible for 'security in the cloud,' which includes patching guest operating systems on Amazon EC2, monitoring their own business applications, and optimizing their own service costs.